Wednesday Vote
The anti-free market forces line up in earnest today for the vote on the big name retailers who promise to bring jobs and prosperity to blighted areas of the Chicago neighborhoods that haven't had a either jobs or prosperity since the King riots in 1968. Amazingly, the mayor seems to be coming down on the side of the free market forces.
Mayor Daley on Monday denounced as "redlining" a proposal to establish wage and benefit standards for Wal-Mart and other retailing giants and suggested that aldermen who don't want big-box stores simply "opt out."
Daley played the race card, flanked by some of Chicago's most influential black ministers, two days before a City Council showdown on an ordinance that could change the economic landscape in Chicago.
Pretty out of character stuff for a mayor who has been elected on the free money and "volunteers" that the unions regularly provide. But the main point here is that a job, any job, looks good to a community without many opportunities. Should be an interesting finish to the week no matter how it goes.
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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It is still easier to just go to the mailbox and pick-up THAT check!
Did anyone see today's Redeye and the picture of the Mayor?
He lookes like he's having a meltdown.
I agree with the meltdown theory; saw "da mare" on the evening news.....he looks like he's nervous that the aldermen might actually vote against him (for once, rightly or wrongly), and, just maybe he's beginning to finally realize the federal heat. It's a beautiful thing.....
You people have it all wrong...da da da mayor is actually becoming Nietzsche's "superman" because he has looked back on his past accomplishments and has become real SICK....(for you gen-xxers that really means ill, which really means, uh, can't go to school, yea.....)
Can you believe "DUKE" He wants $10 an Hour. I hope the Big Box Stores say FUCK YOU and leave. Then what do they have , Shit , Nada, Nothing. Then the Mayor and all the AlderMotherfuckers can go to HELL.
I've heard that his wife is facing more surgery at the end of the week, so he is "less focused".
The reason they have to be paid $10.00 per hr, so they can figure out their paychecks. Can you imagine if they were making $8.75 ? It would take a week to calculate 40hrs.
They can't count change,, not even with the cash register telling them what to give back.
I wish there was a way to surgically excise the rest of these Irish idiots from Chicago as well! But that would be too easy.
BIG BOX SUPPORTER said...
Can you believe "DUKE" He wants $10 an Hour. I hope the Big Box Stores say FUCK YOU and leave. Then what do they have , Shit , Nada, Nothing. Then the Mayor and all the AlderMotherfuckers can go to HELL.
7/26/2006 06:38:52 AM
Anonymous said...
The reason they have to be paid $10.00 per hr, so they can figure out their paychecks. Can you imagine if they were making $8.75 ? It would take a week to calculate 40hrs.
They can't count change,, not even with the cash register telling them what to give back.
7/26/2006 07:13:18 AM
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Then in this case no STUPID ASS HONKEYS NEED TO APPLY. That means all of you motherfuckers. BITCHES
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Daley and his followers are socialists. They do follow the beliefs of Karl Marx and Lenin. Compare the mentalities and the philosophies between them and keep an open mind. You will understand if you aren't stupid.
Give them $7.00 an hour and the rest in Jack Binion's Gift Certificates. They spend most of it on the Boats anyway.
Then if they roll dem bones just right, it's Crown Royal for all!
walmart is not the problem my friends ... its like locking up a drug dealer....another is right behnd to take his place (to pay low wages)
its the free trade nonsense ... come on ... you ever talk to a tool-and-dye oldtimer... they can't compete with China
we are sucking up 3rd world nations products like a crack whore on the glass pipe ... and stinky sweaty pee-pee... what are you gonna do about it??? TARIFFS my friends ... make those garbage products MORE EXPENSIVE so wallmart has to charge more cash for them ... and the TARIFF money can go to Daley because he needs to buy a lot of fine silk hankerchiffs to wipe the greasy sweat off his midget mick brow from all the stress!!! FITZGERALD for mayor my friend!!!!!!!
dtillman@cityofchicago.org
This is Aldercreature Tillmans email. Send her one and tell her what you think about JON BURGE. And her trying to take his pension away. She is a RACIST BITCH !!!!!
Someone onthe street the other day told me "Black folks can't be racist!" THAT WAS FUNNY
That;s silly,just silly,silly,silly,silly....very silly,that's so silly,very silly
To 7/26/2006 11:48:30 AM.
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On behalf of "big box" retailers, we would like to convey our sentiments to the City Council of Chicago.
Why do you continue your bullshit meddling about foie gras, trans fatty items in fast food restaurants, outdoor smoking and other frivolous nonsense that is none of your business? A transparent diversion tactic from serious issues?
Considering the fact that Chicago is the most CORRUPT major city in America, perhaps you could devote your time to anti-patronage, whistleblower protection and mayoral recall referendum ordinances.
P.S.: No more "big box" retailers within your corporate limits.
In the words of our late founder, Sam Walton: FUCK CHICAGO!
Dorothy Tillman says;
Talk about Big Boxes, when I was a HO on the south side I had the Biggest Box of them all.
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Why can't we have a united white college fund? Or a white expo? Or a white tv station like they have BET? Who's racist now?!
Dorothy Tillman says;
Talk about Big Boxes, when I was a HO on the south side I had the Biggest Box of them all.
very good!
To all you aldermen. You all are the biggest fucking bafoons in the country. Everyone laughs at the shit you all come up with. This is what we get from a corrupt city,county,and state government. IMBECILE'S. Definition of imbecile is, suffering from mental retardation. That puts you one step above the ass wholes that vote for you.
Capitolism, Coltype...in America?? Say it isn't so! I'd prefer a union (like the FOP) forcing everyone to be paid even if they are lazy lock-up keepers who sleep for 90% of their shift. I worked as a bus boy, dishwasher, painter, and several other non-union jobs. They helped me get where I am. Let the marker regulate Wal-Mart, not the all-knowning city council.
chicago alderman = retards
I shop outside the city. That includes gas. Pretty soon the alderidiots are going to pass an ordinance dictating where city workers must shop. They already dictate where we must live. They are going to drive retailers out. The income the city would get from the taxes from the large retailers will diminish and our property taxes will go up to cover the losses. Just wait. Total idiots. Sounds like a Jessie Jackson/Operation PUSH scam.
Don't these people realize that these so-called "big-box" stores can pitch camp just outside the city? Niles, Norridge, Oak Lawn, Oak Park, Evergreen Park, the list goes on. People from chicago will flock at these sites to land a job, even at minimum wage. And Chicagoans will "cross the border" into the neighboring burb to do their shopping. Chicago loses. Don't vote for any incumbant alderman....they are total idiots when it comes to business and simple economics.
The City dicked around with the southside walmart and Walmart sent them packing by building their store in Evergreen Park. It's actually immediately across the street from Chicago. The SouthTown reported that store (which seems to be almost all city dwellers) contributes $1 mil. in revenue to EP yearly.
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