The Funniest Quote

THIS has got to be the funniest quote we've seen in a long time. It comes from today's (Thursday) sun-times article by our favorite investigative reporters Tim Novak & Steve Warmbir (the Hired Truck guys) accompanied by Art Golab. The article is about the recently discovered scam of homeowners paying more, sometimes much more, than 50% of the replacement cost of their sidewalks:

• But city officials insist no one should have assumed the city would pay half under the 50/50 sidewalk program.

Let's read that again, shall we?

• But city officials insist no one should have assumed the city would pay half under the 50/50 sidewalk program.

Excuse us? No one should have assumed? Then why the FU$% would you name it the "50/50 Program?" Because the homeowners thought they'd pay 60%? 75%? Give us a FU$%^&* break. Someone was making money off of this BIG TIME. Warmbir and Novak even find a whole sh&*load of clout heavies who were paying less than 50% (some as low as 2%) of the replacement costs of their sidewalks. We'd say "unbelievable" but it really isn't. It really makes us amazed that the $100 million dollar hole in richie's budget isn't about $200 million dollars bigger.