It Never Stops

Some famous socialist once said this:

• I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.

This as a prelude to confiscatory tax rates, "free" health care and policies that have and will continue to wreak havoc on the economy. But he didn't specify "creatively acquiring via shady practices" money - evidently, that's still okay:

• Former Mayor Richard M. Daley and his son are aiming to cash in on a federal program that offers green cards to wealthy foreigners with a deal that could bring their company $15 million, records obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times show.
  
  Tur Partners — which Daley formed with his son Patrick Daley after leaving office — is seeking permission from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to solicit $150 million from foreign investors to help finance construction of a downtown skyscraper through a controversial visa program known as EB-5.
  
  The Daleys hope to land as many as 300 foreign investors, most likely from China, according to the application Patrick Daley submitted to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Sept. 22, 2015. Each would put up $500,000 for the skyscraper project and also pay a $50,000 administrative fee that would bring the Daleys’ company $15 million, the application shows.
  
  In return, the foreigners would be eligible to be granted visas allowing them and their immediate families to move to the United States and live here forever.

So rich foreigners buy their way into the country through already connected rich guys and jump to the head of the line. And Shortshanks reaps another windfall on top of how many pensions? How many connected "chairmanships"? How many partnerships? Wasn't this fucker senile or something when he avoided testifying in Federal Court?

And then there are the widows of coppers wondering how they're going to survive when their health care payments stop in 2017.