Monday, August 18, 2008
News / Clout City Welcome back
Posted by Ben Joravsky on 08.18.08 at 06:34 PM
I got away last week -- took a trip to a different time zone and forgot all about Chicago.
As absurd as it sounds, I was hoping to come back to learn that my fellow Chicagoans had come to their senses and decided to rebel against the lunacy of staging a multibillion Olympic party while we're going bankrupt.
But, no, the papers tell me that it's full steam ahead on Mayor Daley's Olympic follies, even as he threatens to add police and fire to all the other cutbacks.
Just when I had almost lost all hope with the happy sheep who are Chicago citizens, I found my way to the following link.
It's good to know the resistance lives.
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Don't believe everything you don't read in the 'papers', and most everything you do, you know what liars the print, and broadcast, media employ and are owned by. Try keeping up to date on: http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/ You might perk right up. (no pun implied or intended)
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If things are so bad here, you should have done yourself (and us) a favor have stayed where you were.
Always fretting about losing those unearned comforts he/she possesses. Don't fret, oreo, there's always the folks cruising the corner of Belmont and Broadway waiting, with baited breaths, for your return.
1) $422 million short on 2009 Budget after being short in 2008,2007,2006,2005,2004. Blames Unions and City Workers AGAIN!They sit back and take it in the ASS! 2) Your Bensenville "DEAD ZONE" is still alive. O'Hare expansion short $332 million . he still wants to knock down homes for the fuck of it!! 3) Alderman Tom Allen actually acts like a Alderman and complains about over spending by Richie Rich Daley! I'm glad your back.......Mick was a one man army and the only other real reporter in Chi-Town! September 10 is the date daley goes to the City Council with his Bull-Shit!!
That video with Daley was rude. Mayor Daley is a great person that loves America! God bless America, land dat i luv,..........
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1114427,CST-NWS-clark19.article Fran Spielman is the greatest reporter in town!
little birdies are saying something "structural" ain't quite right with the taxpayer-subsidized Soldier Field parking garage, it's been closed for a few days...
I read the Sun-Times article on the hole in the street. Why are we paying a private company and a city plumber to do work. Thats double billing us the taxpayer. Thats the real story!Isn't that what Mayor's son Patrick daley did? With the City of Chicago in a $422 million dollar mess, why are we paying a City Plumber to watch a private contractor do work? Can someone answer that question?
"Can someone answer that question?" This is the ONLY answer that you need to remember: REGISTER TO VOTE VOTE IN EVERY ELECTION HAVE NO DOUBT, VOTE INCUMBENTS OUT REAL Change You CAN Believe In
Vote incumbents out would be nice, if people actually had any brains. You only need to vote out the guy at the top. Daley is the cause. Get rid of Daley in the next election and hire a mayor who will not put up with the waste and corruption and get people doing their jobs.
maybe you made it to another time zone but I doubt you forgot all about Chicago...
Jackass who SUPPORTS Jesse Jackson Jr & Would COWARDLY move to Lincolnshire, Home of the LILYWHITE elite.
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It doesn't work buddy, because lots are people are dumb and will keep re-electing the same people.
McDonough is a Investigator now. He is first response to determine what need to be done. That is a waste of talent, he is the best Licensed Plumber at the City of Chicago. You need smart first responders to handle emergencies. I think he needs to lose some weight, but he is very handsome.
The SAME WORN-OUT MANTRA OR CLICHE: REGISTER TO VOTE VOTE IN EVERY ELECTION HAVE NO DOUBT, VOTE INCUMBENTS OUT The SAME Bullshit mantra OVER AND OVER AGAIN, Courtesy of Mick Dumbfuckee & Ben Jagoffsky & Co....
Since TIF's are defined as being funded by the ADDITIONAL tax revenues gained when, (presumably because of the use of said TIF funds within the designated TIF district's boundaries), the real properties within said TIF districts INCREASE in value, would it be accurate to say that the purposes of TIF's are NOT intended for providing ESSENTIAL city services? And, if this is so, then, wouldn't it also be accurate to say that using the taxpayers' dollars for ESSENTIAL services takes priority over using them for NON-ESSENTIAL, projected and speculative goals? And would it further be accurate to say that, given the mayor's assessment of the dire need to close a $420,000,000+ city budgetary shortfall, that the appropriate and fiscally responsible action for the mayor to take would be to SUSPEND the expending of TIF fund assets, freezing these TIF NON-ESSENTIAL projects, and returning whatever amount of taxpayers' monies, being held in these TIF accounts, to the city's budget, until this supposed shortfall is covered, WITHOUT reducing ESSENTIAL services? After all, TIF monies ARE our tax dollars. How much of our tax money is currently being held hostage in the TIF account? How many citizens would choose to have these monies applied to this supposed budgetary shortfall, instead of the mayor's first choice of reducing city services and laying off ESSENTIAL city employees? And how about the mayor, and the city council members, and the daley machine's clout monkeys raking in $50,000 a year or more, providing the tax paying citizens with the example of belt tightening, by taking a 20% cut in their bloated salaries, just to get the ball rolling? These many fat cats could benefit from a bit of belt tightening, being a bloated bunch of greedy gluttons isn't good for their circulatory systems. So, Ben, would you be so kind as to lay out how easily and effectively using the TIF slush fund monies could solve this alleged budgetary shortfall? All without having to raise any fees, taxes or fines? And all without having to reduce ESSENTIAL city services, like fire protection, emergency medical services, police manpower, refuse collection, street repairs, water services, sewer maintenance, etc., etc., etc......
