How Much is Left?
Once again, proving that government should keep it's fingers out of what should be the purview of business:
- Rising costs, declining demand and increased competition from private Internet providers have prompted Chicago to shelve its ambitious plan to build an $18.5 million wireless Internet access system with a reach that extends into the city’s poorest communities.
Just an observation, but if the poorest communities can afford computers? Then they really aren't that poor.
And where is what's left of that $18.5 million headed?
And where is what's left of that $18.5 million headed?
Labels: city politics
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
29 Comments:
It's not a bad idea to have a wireless access city if the corporation finances it.
SSSHHHIITTTT! The poorest of the poor keep parking X5's and Jags in front of their section 8 houses... where you been?
Bush Warns US Will Confront 'Nuclear Iran'
"George Bush has warned that letting Iran acquire nuclear weapons risked putting the Middle East "under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust
"Mr Ahmadinejad also said that "Iran is a nuclear Iran"...
Iran has also announced today that they are ready to fill the power vacuum that is coming in Iraq. This means that they do not care that we are there and that they are preparing to fight. They are waiting for us to attack so they can go into Iraq and we are waiting for them to go into Iraq in order to justify strategic miliraty airstrikes and cruise launches.
It is a chess game that has the Soviet Union again on alert and Pakistan ready to arm terrorists with nucklear weapons and India renewing relations with the US. It is coming. The last piece is France and the statement that a bombing capaign may be needed. this is not the ushering of the NWO, but the preparation for the last world war.
How about a blog on this SCC?
US purchased 190 thousand guns to arm Iraqi security forces went “missing”!
GOA report to Congressional Committees stresses that DOD can not guarantee that US funded weapons reach Iraqi security forces.
Here’s the bottom line on this particular mess;
110 thousand AK-47s and 80 thousand pistols purchased with US tax payers money in order to arm Iraqi security forces are simply “unaccounted” for by US Army.
Also, 135 thousand body armor vests, and 115 thousand helmets are also “missing”.
October 2006 Congress report stated that in 2003, 14 thousand firearms went “missing” in Iraq.
It also has to be mentioned, that out of more then 370 thousand guns US provided to Iraqi forces, serial numbers of only 10 thousand were registered by Pentagon, thus automatically leaving 360 thousand as unaccounted for.
That by effect allows Iraqi forces to use their US issue weapons against US forces with out any accountability, specifically because serial numbers of their weapons are not registered.
The rearming of Iraqi security forces contract topped $22 billion dollars by the way, while leaving the overwhelming majority of the firearms simply unaccounted for.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d07711.pdf
Does anyone see a coming market crash? 30% correction?
Maybe time to reallocate the portfolio?
Does anyone really believe that people in Section 8, CHA, Bickerdikes, etc., all have computers with wireless access? I'm as conservative as the next guy, but it's ridiculous to think that "the poorest of the poor" were set to benefit from this plan.
This is clearly a case of behind-the-scenes maneuvering by SBC and Comcast to keep rates jacked up. The "free market" is not nearly as free as we might like to think.
Mayor Daley takes care of Officer McKenna's family after his Father was slain last November at 500 W. Madison by the madman portable toilet murderer:
Environment chief OK'd in committee
A City Council committee on Tuesday approved Mayor Daley's appointment of Environment Commissioner Suzanne Malec-McKenna.
Lots of poor people have computers. Kids still need them to complete homework assignments on, SCC. And you can pick up a decent used one in a variety of secondhand stores and computer repair shops for under $300.00, including a printer.
Computers aren't an "option" anymore for students, SCC. Just thought you'd want to know. Thank God just about every officer I know has at least one computer in their home. SCC, you need to show a little class on this one. Lots of kids have homework assignments that will require them to acquire some info on their topic through the internet; anyone who is actually INVOLVED in their kid's homework completion projects will know this. Not everyone uses it to watch porn, or to read the mindless crap that frequently shows up here.
THE POOR? WE WILL PAY A HUGE PROPERTY TAX BILL COMING SOON TO A MAILBOX ON YOUR PROPERTY SOON! DALEY WANTS TO PLACATE ALL THE DOGASS LAZY FUCKS, AND THE ILLEGALS BY GIVING IT ALL AWAY, AND MAKE US PAY DEARLY TO LIVE IN "SHIT CITY"! 5 MORE AND TENNESSEE IS LOOKING BETTER AND BETTER!
I am glad to see a few corporations are finally wising up to Daleys strong arm tactics. Daley wanted the carried to full pay for the installation and maintance of this system with no money from the city. They would then be forced to provide the coverage at a reduced rate so everyone would be able to get the internet.
What the fuck is going on in todays society in that politicans think that everyone one deserves eveything!
When I grew up and my parents before me, if you wanted something you worked saved money and paid for it. Plain and simple
dilly daley has had so many stupid ideas, that if he was in the private sector, he'd be homeless.
Who remembers his idea for an airport on the south east side? He was going to close midway.
His blue bag program is a joke.
The 911 building? How many Mccormick places do we need? He totally ruinedthe police and fire depts. with his bs promotion and hiring policy. The school system is one of the largest organized groups of morons in the world.
0540am TROLL hey SCC
Every search warrant I was on in the ghetto the target had a nice desktop pc.
WTF is with the "School Starts September 4th Brought to you by Jewel Food Stores" signs on EVERY CORNER in 003/006? 4 Signs per corner too. I thought I was unaware of an upcoming election! Why don't they put signs like "The sky is blue" and "Grass is green" out while they're at it! I have a kid and I don't need JEWEL to tell me when my kid goes back to school. It's MY KID - MY RESPONSIBILITY. Oh wait, I think I just used a word that fewer and fewer people really understand. Those signs are an embarrassment. Funny didn't see ANY west of Western.
BUT OFFICE, IF THEY DON'T GET COMPUTERS WITH FREE WIRELESS INTERNET ACCESS , THEN THEY'D HAVE TO GET OFF THEIR ASSES , HOPEFULY SHOWER , PUT ON SME DECENT LOOKING CLOTHES AND ACTUALY GO OUT INTO THE REAL WORLD AND LOOK FOR A JOB.
I LOVE THE WAY THEY USE FREE CABLE AND FREE INTERNET ACCESS "FOR EDUCATIONAL" PURPOSES. BWAHAHAHA
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WTF is with the "School Starts September 4th Brought to you by Jewel Food Stores" signs on EVERY CORNER in 003/006? 4 Signs per corner too. I thought I was unaware of an upcoming election! Why don't they put signs like "The sky is blue" and "Grass is green" out while they're at it! I have a kid and I don't need JEWEL to tell me when my kid goes back to school. It's MY KID - MY RESPONSIBILITY. Oh wait, I think I just used a word that fewer and fewer people really understand. Those signs are an embarrassment. Funny didn't see ANY west of Western.
8/29/2007 03:26:00 PM
THIS SAYS IT ALL,THE GHETTO NEEDS THE STATE TO DO EVERYTHING FOR THEM.
MAYBE I CAN HAVE THE CITY CALL ME SO I AM NOT LATE FOR ROLLCALL.
WHAT A COMPLETE AND UTTER JOKE,I WOULD BE ASHAMED.
As I've posted before, CPS gets money from the State/Feds according how many kids show up on the 1st day of school. They are trying to get as many as possible.
Why the signs???
Granny: When you start school LaReginald?
LR: In October Granny.
Granny: Ok. Don't forget to go.
LR: I won't Granny.
Granny: You is a good boy LaReggie.
REPLY TO:
"Does anyone see a coming market crash? 30% correction?
Maybe time to reallocate the portfolio?
8/29/2007 03:54:00 AM "
Yes, the market will take a major fall; as will real estate. In two years, today will be remembered the 'good old days'.
Real estate values in the north shore are ready to plummet 15%; and that's just the beginning. Believe me now and trust me later when I tell you to get out of the bars and into the gyms. The future is bleak for this economy and the challenege will fall to the guys in blue. Take extra firearms training, learn how to box,learn how to run, because there's going to be a boatload of angry unemployed middle class people out there who are going to want to vent against their government. Unfortunately, we're the firstline of government.....Man-o-man, are we screwed!
dilly daley has had so many stupid ideas, that if he was in the private sector, he'd be homeless.
Who remembers his idea for an airport on the south east side? He was going to close midway.
His blue bag program is a joke.
The 911 building? How many Mccormick places do we need? He totally ruinedthe police and fire depts. with his bs promotion and hiring policy. The school system is one of the largest organized groups of morons in the world.
8/29/2007 11:53:00 AM
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Let's not forget the bull dozing of Meigs Field in the middle of the night.
dilly daley has had so many stupid ideas, that if he was in the private sector, he'd be homeless.
Who remembers his idea for an airport on the south east side? He was going to close midway.
His blue bag program is a joke.
The 911 building? How many Mccormick places do we need? He totally ruinedthe police and fire depts. with his bs promotion and hiring policy. The school system is one of the largest organized groups of morons in the world.
8/29/2007 11:53:00 AM
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I've seen those signs, too. Nothing seen in my neighborhood. I can't believe the school board strong-armed Jewel (kickbacks?) in producing these signs. Why do we need a grocer to remind us to send our kids to school? Stop placating to the never-ending irresponsibility of the down-trodden ghetto folk. You have kids, you send them to school when they have school. Plain and simple.Time for the poor (especially those who continually have their hands out)to grow up.
AT LAST A REAL FIGURE:
The Policemen's Annuity & Benefit Fund (Your pension) sent out their annual report today.
There are 13,749 members paying into the CPD pension fund.
End of argument as to how many officers are employed by the CPD!
What's up with all the Tac openings citywide? I think they have 6 in 018 alone.
Has anyone seen the articles on bandwidth speed in the USA versus Asia and Europe? They have bandwidth speed ten times the average US DSL speed. The US is falling behind the rest of the industrialized world in a multitude of ways.
Poor? We have POOR people here? Nonsence! What we have are LAZY people here.The Army gave me the opportunity to go to 3rd world countries and see POOR people living in homemade rickety shacks on the side of a mountain, yet they are good people.I have seen with my own eyes the fattest so called POOR people here in the good ol' U.S., the fattest in the world mind you,POOR no, LAZY is the word that should have been used,AND I blame the socialist libtard democrats for enabling them to be LAZY.In other words IT'S YOUR FAULT!LIBTARDS!
13,749 members paying into the pension fund does not translate into that same number working the streets and you know it, now go back to your precious calculator and figure out how many street coppers we have.Desk jobs and medical abusers don't count.Statistics can mean whatever you want them to mean and I'm calling you out on this one.Get it right or get lost, we are short.
You are "calling me out" ?
Dimwit, I just quoted the number of officers paying into the pension fund. Who knows where they are assigned.
Now go "Call out" one of your playmates. Little boy.
Whining dickwads, like yourself, moan and cry about everything as long as you can do it anonymously.
Unfortunately, we're the firstline of government.....Man-o-man, are we screwed
Not if you just walk away. I didnt make the mess, and I'm not cleaniong it up.
SORRY,
I honestly don't believe that the CPD is more than 11,500 sworn personnel
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