A Miracle Cure
- Gov. Blagojevich and Senate President Emil Jones embraced a new $5 billion plan Friday that would bring four casinos to the Chicago area and impose additional business taxes to fund health care, schools and mass transit.
- Under Jones-backed legislation that advanced out of a Senate committee by a vote of 8-5, three riverboat licenses would be authorized for Waukegan, the south suburbs and some point within an eight-mile radius of O'Hare Airport. Additionally, Chicago would get a casino.
And of course, nothing would be complete without Emil Jones getting his filthy, dirty, corrupt fingers in some part of the pie:
- Republicans attacked the proposal, in part, because it would divert 2 percent of revenues from the four casinos to Chicago State University, potentially handing the school a $40 million windfall that would double its take from the state.
- In committee, Jones initially said Chicago State wasn't in the legislation. But the GOP pointed out the specific language in the 218-page bill that would assure the university a multimillion-dollar windfall, prompting Jones to quietly tell a dissatisfied and surprised Senate Democratic colleague that the bill could be amended.
How about a proposal to divert 2% of the funds toward unpaid pension liabilities? Or even 5% or more? The underfunded portions would be paid off in a few short years and could even be used to make the funds self sufficient - meaning the state wouldn't have to pay another dime into them ever again and could actually - GASP!! - cut taxes, thereby making Illinois once again attractive to industrial investors and people who might want to build factories and create jobs here.
Oh wait, that makes sense. We apologize.
Oh wait, that makes sense. We apologize.
Labels: state politics
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
26 Comments:
Daley has to pay for the pensions somehow.
God knows he doesn't know shit about finances or balancing a budget.
I am all for a land-based Chicago casino.
After all, he didn't bulldoze Meigs Field for the fuck of it!
Leave it to a libtard to say one thing and do the other,the day I retire and leave this insane place can't come soon enough.
Wasn't the Illinois State Lottery, as promoted to the citizens and members in the political areana throughout the state going to be the salvation for paying for education and and few other projects?
You talk about pissing moneny away and into a broken system. This is criminal. Now more money will line the pockets of the pols and the schools will be no better off that they are now.
Why not have Edison just pay it's bribes into the pension fun instead of into Emil Jones' pocket?
don't beleive any of their lies...
remember when...
this is a temporary surcharge on your phone bill to help build the the new 911 Center.
remember when...
this new lottery will pay our schools and our infrastructre...
remember when... (insert yours here)
Do you think daleys friends will get contracts and vendor spaces watch the names walsh-degnan-reyes (If he is still not in jail)-joyce and more! all about stealing and lying right? lets get the casinos a rolling maybe we could get free hralth care LOL! would be more money to build schools for illegal assholes!
Casinos are coming and I know where.
When Daley kidnapped Meigs field, the plan at that time was to bring in a gambling boat and whet the appetites of the gambling public and see if all the outfit types could share the wealth and not have the collateral crimes spill into the neighborhoods. But where to put one? Navy Pier has always been a hands-off zone that will remain family oriented and a big kids attraction. So, under the cover of darkness, he swiped Northerly Island (against FAA wishes) and turned it into an expensive vacant lot. They thought a floating casino would be perfect here. Once everyone is on board the "gambling might be good for the City" bandwagon, the push will be to move the casinos (yes, that's plural) onto Ogden Ave.
From Stroger Hospital to the city limits, there's remarkably NOTHING on Ogden. Accessible from the South, North and West sides of the City and a short cab ride from downtown and serviced by 3 expressways, Ogden Ave could be the Chicago equivalent of the Vegas Strip or Times Square with neon lights ablaze and wide enough (10 lanes wide in some stretches) for a quaint trolley car or monorail-type people mover. Overnight, all the west side slums and blight would be washed away, not by segregation but by making property taxes out of reach to most but the affluent few. The tough part would be in keeping all the corrupt fingers out of the pie. Maybe they should just let the Outfit run it as Vegas never fails to make a profit every year and Vegas coppers HAVE TO be offered the 1st crack at working the part-time gigs. Only after the PD all turn it down can the casinos hire from the outside. This might be the financial shot in the arm the city needs and OF COURSE they'd have to increase both the size of the CPD as well as the SALARIES of the po-leeses.
Ever notice how there are fewer and fewer vacant lots in the west side? Makes you wonder if this isn't part of some grand plan. Oh, by the way, Bobbie Steel and some other of the oh-so-connected live right off Ogden. Hrumph, go figure.
BAD IDEA
i think all this commotion about shortfalls in CPS, CTA etc...and the rediculus tax the gov. has been talking about was just to build taxpayer support/acceptance of expanded gaming.
Sigh, SCC, you are talking like a republian. Lower taxes = more money? Sure, it's been proven, but the demorats won't believe it! They want to tax us into prosperity! I don't think they ever took an economics class in their life. Take the CTA for an example. Ridership down? Raise fares to make up the money? Wait a sec, even less riders? Well, let's raise the rate again! Damn, down again....They don't even see their theory is broken...sigh....
If these political whores made an additional billion dollars from gambling, guess what, they would spend and steal all the more. Nothing ever changes with these pathetic thieving rats.
Keep voting democrat.
I wish I was retired NOW!Fuck this place.
DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THAT EMIL JONES AND A BUNCH OF HIS CHURCH PEOPLE BOUGHT A LOT OF LAND IN THE SOUTH SUBURBS AND ATTEMPTED TO FLEX FOR A CASINO THERE . JONES NOW ON HIS LAST LEGS IS PULLING OUT ALL THE STOPS . IF I REMEMBER SO DOES THE PRESS. MAYBE THEY WILL LOOK INTO THE PAST AND PULL UP THAT ARTICLE DO SOME RESEARCH AND REPORT ON THAT
JUST A QUESTION .WHEN SOMEONE IS LUCKY ENOUGH TO WIN A MILLION DOLLAR LOTTERY. THE STATE BUYS A MILLION DOLLAR ANNUNITY . THE LUCKY LOTTERY WINNER GETS A SET AMOUNT FOR 20 YEARS. THIS IS ACTUALLY THE INTERST ON ONE MILLION DOLLARS OVER 20 YEARS. AT THE END OF THAT TWENTY YEARS WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE 1 MILLION DOLLARS . IT SHOULD STILL BE THERE . RIGHT? IN WHO'S POCKET IS IT IN ?
To 5/27/2007 09:41:00 AM
If I remember correctly, the tollways were to be temporary too.
The combine degnan-joyce-daley have already bought land in peotone for a 3rd airport think maybe it will be a casino! Midway airport is for sale that is why the city is running it down and it is literally falling apart until sale goes through! How much will the price be? how much will daley and friends keep? Will our pension ever be funded?
As I understand it...
The lottery money (principal) gets deposited in the Board of Education thats the Schools for all you from HQ. Then the principal is withdrawn and deposited in the State of Illinois' general fund to be spent as seen fit by the elected officials of this state.
I do remember that when the lottery was first being introduce to the State that it was touted as being the savior of our schools. Guess now the additional revenue from Casinos, and the related revenue will now be the ticket to the Kingdom of Daley's financial solvency
If I remember correctly, the tollways were to be temporary too.
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you SIR are very right...
Wayne Johnson will offer his opinion on OC connections and then change it once he is offered another job by Vrdolyak.
makes sense that midway should close, they already stole a few billion for the new midway.
Peotone won't be a casino. It will eventually be an airport. It might be 15-20 years down the road, but it will happen.
Hey you coppers, look at the side jobs the casino will give you. Maybe some discount chips too.
I would put money on a casino being built right off the Chicago river near Clark/Canal St and Roosevelt Rd. Ever wonder why with all then new building going on, that this parcel of land has never been developed? They also had a trolley service that traveled from Navy Pier, to the Museum campus, to this location at Roosevelt and Canal. Why, nothing is there yet??? Just wait and see.....
Rather than fund your pension, these assholes want to tax it.
Make the Dan Ryan a toll road. The city would be rich.
I AM PRAYING THAT ROBERT GRANT HEAD OF THE CHICAGO FBI GETS A LOT OF NEW AGENTS TO GO THROUGH THAT CESSPOOL OF DALEY-STROGER-BLAGO- ALL THE ALDERTHUGS-AND REST OF THE CRIMINAL CREW! THESE GUYS LIKE EMIL JONES AND STROGER ARE SO BLANTANTLY STEALING GIVING MADE UP JOBS TO HO'S AND FAMILY AND THEY KEEP DOING IT WHILE THEY STEAL BILLIONS FROM US! THEN WE HAVE BLAGO AND HIS PRISSY WIFE STEALING WITH MADE UP LAND DEALS WHATS NEXT BLAGOS KIDS STEAL FROM THEIR SCHOOLS?
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