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      <![CDATA[We the citizens of this repressed city must first challenge the media. People have siezed media as a first step in toppling corrupt Governments.
        
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      <![CDATA[To all those people who have high property taxes, all tose about to be laid off, and all those who feel upset at the way Daley has treated them:
    
        www.olympic.org
    
        International Olympic Committee
        Chateau de Vidy
        1007 Lausanne
        Switzerland
    
        tel: (41.21) 621 61 11
        fax: (41.21) 621 62 16
        
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      <![CDATA[When will the people of this city be free from Daley and his corrupt people?
        
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      <![CDATA["Part of the problem is that Daley thought the real estate boom would last forever and grow but in fact it was a bubble."
    
    but that's my point, only a vegetable could be that dense. 
    
    people of Daley and his close circle's stature could not have realized that the Bush admin tried to minimize the impact of the tech stock bubble by encouraging a real estate one.
        
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      <![CDATA[In Bridgeport we don't take out books to read so there can't be any late fees.
    Maybe boot the cars of people who return books late--that won't affect me or my captains--some can't even read.
        
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      <![CDATA[Part of the problem is that Daley thought the real estate boom would last forever and grow but in fact it was a bubble.
    Also, there is no vision or planning only reaction to crisis with Daley.
    Daley has too many 6 figure patronage middle managers wasting money and actually doing harm to managing the city.
    Daley through his real estate push, making Chicago expensive, and high taxes (as well as his brothers role in banking and Fannie Mae etc) played a role in the foreclosure crisis (obviously it is much broader than Daley but Daley played a negative role)
    The City through an antiquated and selectively enforced building code and inspectors that are shake down artists or reactionary cost the city a lot of money.
    Daley has controlled the budgets and put in a lot of waste and pork and did not save for a rainy day.
        
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      <![CDATA[Do any of these alleged MBA business "experts" that work for Da Mare recall this little thing in Econ 101 called a business cycle?
    
    The economy goes through these cycles, CONSTANTLY - any financial planner worth a plugged nickel should have seen the economic slowdown coming & had a contingency plan for it.
    
    Unless that's what all these TIFs really are for - which would be great if the City wasn't spending money hand over fist on the red tape aspects of TIF programs.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Hugh]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[would this be a good time for a status update on Ald. Moore's efforts to hire a budget analyst?
        
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      <![CDATA[Before a phalanx of TV cameras, 31st Ward alderman Ray Suarez held up a copy of the 611-page budget proposal and made a pledge that would have been unthinkable, or at least unutterable, in many of the flush years past: "We are going to have to look closely at this thing."
    
    sure, Ray, take as much time as you want - up to 2 weeks
    
    it's not like he could hold up a copy of the People's Budget prepared by our elected representatives
        
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      <![CDATA[What are you mopes whinning about. Chicago is the most livable city in the nation. Quit listening to that cry baby Lemon-Head,he doesn't have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of. Hasn't Mayor cleared out all the ghetto trash. Also when we get our boy in the White House , Daley will have a blank check,to straight out this mess.
        
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      <![CDATA["It prompted a standing ovation."
    
    including from the aldermen you can count on less than 1 hand who have been around long enough to remember when the Council used to present the budget to the Mayor
        
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      <![CDATA[20 years of corruption. 
    20 years of federal opportunities to take down Daley and his cronies. 
    
    daley is like the energizer bunny of corruption.
        
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          Posted by Lon]]>
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    <author><![CDATA[fedup dem]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[If Mayor Daley wants to keep Chicago moving forward, he should resign immediately.  The city has been strangled by the billions nearly two decades of corruption has inflicted upon us since Daley's election in 1989.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Frank Coconate]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Scott Waguespack, wondered why some of the "management improvements" hadn&acirc;&#128;&#153;t been implemented already if they were such great ideas. "We plan six months ahead; other cities have five and six-year plans," said Waguespack. "There&acirc;&#128;&#153;s no way you can say you didn&acirc;&#128;&#153;t see some of this coming." 
    
    
    Finally someone with some COMMON SENSE !
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Frank Coconate]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[$462 million OVER budget for 2009.
    
     $266 million OVER budget at CTA
    
     $300 million OVER budget at OMP
    
     $66 million OVER budget at Parks.
    
      $500 million for the Olympics.
    
    Whats this Mayors solution?
    
      Raise the fees on over due books?
    
    I beg of you great people of Chicago. When is enough ,enough?
    
    
     This Mayor is a fuckin clown!!!!
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Beautiful Dreaming]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Shit, Merriam, if that happened, we, the citizens, would have a several billion dollar surplus!
    
    Woohoo!
        
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      <![CDATA[Ways to cut spending:
    1. Eliminate all 11th ward jobs
    2. Eliminate all 19th ward jobs
    3. Eliminate all 29th ward jobs
    4. Eliminate all 40th ward jobs (you could save money there just with family)
    5. Eliminate all 8th ward jobs
    6. Eliminate all HDO jobs
    THAN Contracts
    Eliminate contracts for these "gentleman" (and some ladies like Maggie Daleys friends
    1. Eliminate Gallery 37
    2. Tim  Degnans contracts
    3. Jerry Joyces contracts
    4. John Schmidts $525 an hour legal contracts
    5. Victor Reyes contracts
    6. Duff contracts
    7. Hanley contracts
    8. John Daley contracts (off of city hired trucks)
    9. Michael Daley contracts (all the zoning business)
    10. Bill Daley and Jr (the parking garage leases, bank deals)
    11. Vaneckos pension deals
    12. Michael Marchese land city deals
    13. Arsonist Elzie Higginbottom
    Tax all the above a special corruption tax to give back
        
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      <![CDATA[Look at the waste and corruption and it is still the same as it was years after Daley said he was going to change things. 
    No plan for how to change the city even 20 years later. 
    
    But the olympics sound great.  Maybe Daley will call up the jumping jacks team in time for the olympics.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Jerry Joyce]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[AHHHHHHH   D A M M it feels good to be a Hamburg. I have five summer homes,and cars to go with each one. DAMM IT FEELS GOOD TO BE A HAMBURG.
        
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      <![CDATA[the economy is collapsing and Daley does what? 
    
    Daley cut jumping jacks and free trolleys for out of town guests?  
    The world is coming to an end.
        
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      <![CDATA[good call hugh.
    If we work together and avoid the bickering...means no dissent or you will end up the mayors doghouse, or jail. 
    
    Hey wasn't that how Saddam started out?
        
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      <![CDATA[Daley has a plan?  for more taxes, some october surprise up his sleeve taht he will spring on taxpayers.
        
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      <![CDATA["If we work together and avoid the bickering ... "
    
    asking questions is disloyal
        
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          Posted by Hugh]]>
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      <![CDATA[" ... consolidation of several city departments ... "
    
    I suppose it would be rude to point out that The Manager Mayor split Planning out of Zoning in his first term and now he is combining them.
        
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