Shortages Everywhere
And guess who's going to get stuck with the bill for decades worth of incompetency?
- CTA officials said Wednesday they believe they can find $80 million to cut from the agency's 2009 budget to cope with drastically lower-than-anticipated tax revenues.
But transit officials warned that service cuts and fare increases -- the second round this year -- may be needed to erase whatever shortfall remains. - Some of the stimulus money is on the way to Chicago Public Schools, but it's not even close to being enough to solve the shortfall. Washington is sending $190 million. But as CBS 2's Kristyn Hartman reports, the district will still have a $475 million hole in its budget.
District leaders say between now and June they will lay out a series of steps to close the budget. They have some ideas, but nothing is firm just yet. They did say they would like more money from the state, and they did say there would be trimming.
"The projected $475 million budget deficit that Mr. Huberman has outlined today is very real, and very serious," said Board of Education President Michael Scott.
And real estate transfer taxes are down, along with sales taxes, tickets, fines, licensing, and pretty much everything else.
And so are the middle-class taxpayers. They're beginning to flee the city.
And so are the middle-class taxpayers. They're beginning to flee the city.
Labels: money questions
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
98 Comments:
Arne fled for D.C. just in time, eh? He basically wrote himself a blank check here, failed to bank enough to cover that check, then left us to cover it.
And now, I'm watching him on Charlie Rose, telling how he's planning to feed students three meals a day, buy them glasses, implement additional financial incentives for teachers and "meet the students' social and emotional needs".
Fine goals, but are we going to print him a semi trailer full of money in order to effect all of this?
I Don't like the mayo!!!! But who am I some person who wants to voice a gripe with this current adminstration. He has brought shame and disgust to the city. While the outside world laughs we inside the city limits cry!!! We need a change!! The CPD has the most possible votes of all city government positions. Along with the CFD and all of the service unions we must take a stand against Da Mayo. He is going to ruin this city. Most of us have grown up with this city and know there is room for serious impovement. Lets vote out Da Mayo in 2011. Don't be afraid we must save the Chicago we all know and love.
Wage freezes are coming
SCC how about all of the TIFF MONEY can't the Mayo part with some to help settle the current situation? He is hoarding much of the TIFF MONEY and it is all tax payer money. How about putting it out for a vote? How much is out there waiting to be used by your favorites? Plaese Mr. Mayo we need your help and with all of the TIFF MONEY available we know YOU WILL HELP US!!!!!!!!
Thank You a citizen who remains anonymous because YOU could shut off my WATER!!!!!
I will take a cut in pay and loss of pension if I can get a pdt, m16 and a tahoe. I dont care about myself just the well being of the city. Our mayor and alderman know whats best for us. Dont think dont whine just do your job. Leave the thinking to our leaders. Questioning our leaders will only lead to bad things.
Past time for this nation to stop coddling people and reduce services. We will have to make do with less. Less government programs and less government employees means more people in the private sector pumping money INTO the system.
chicago is a great place to be when times are good but if you are down this town will kick you hard.
I fled that shithole in '93.
Used to be a standing joke to see 10 Streets and San workers standing around watching one or two do all the work.
I owned a home on the SW side near Gage Pk. and once the gangbangers moved in, it no longer was safe to go out at night.
To add insult, the little jag kept raising property taxes every year.
Fuck him.
Now I live in a one stop-light town an hours drive away.
The CPS is going down the shitter too. Huberjag doesn't have the ability to change shit. The real problem with the CPS is multiculturalism, the lack of parental involvement, linguistic difficulties when the little esay's can't speak english.
There is no answer other than the White's leaving the city to avoid a broken dumbed down education system.
Too bad.
this is what happens when 40% of the population isnt pitching in. i m seeing more and more board-ups in 16th district... who do you tax when the taxpayers leave? i have an idea! how about asking the freebee-for-lifers to stand up? or the sanctuary people?
I'll take a wage freeze if I get no residency requirement and 10 hour days where I'm at. However, it has to be both not one or the other.
here's a thought...it's the raised taxes (real estate, sales and gas ) that drove people away from the city and drive people to shop and gas up outside the city....so why not lower them to bring the shoppers back. it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out...but I guess it takes a real man to admit he messed up (something Daley is not).
Cut services. Teachers get a 5% raise, police haven't had one in 2 years. The largest amount of money I see on my tax bill when it's itemized, goes to the school district. To top that off, you can't send children to a public school in this city. If you look at the numbers, Naperville actually spends less per student than Chicago does. How is it they can make things work better out there. Time to start laying off teachers and closing some public schools in Chicago. 50% don't graduate anyway.
Beginning to flee?
This place is a GHETTO. NO jobs, hefty taxes, etc etc etc
So King Dick has been running the show for almost, (April 24th)
20 years. Other than the area bounded by Fullerton, Ashland, Roosevelt and the lake, nothing has improved in this fly-over town. Kids are not learning, housing has not improved, the roads, schools, and transit systems are in the worse shape I have seen in my 50 year life.
There is one positive coming out of this. Both of my kids are intent on relocating out of Illinois when they graduate college. One already is in an out of state college and the other plans to go out of state. Many of my oldest's high school friends feel the same.
So the brain drain will continue until Dick is stuck with no tax base and no hope for iprovement.
Hopefully the sheeple will wake up and figure it out.
Maybe if CPS teachers kids were required to attend CPS schools things would improve. Isn't the whole theory of having a stake in the community the ideology behind residency? What better way to have a stake in the community, than having your own kids in the school system you work for?
for CPS stop busing, if a students is having trouble the parents must pay for after school tutoring, Saturday School and Summer School. No more free breakfast. Maybe the parents should step up and take care of their kids. PB&J makes a great breakfast and is pretty cheap.
What ever happen to the lottery monies...wasn't that supposed to be for the schools
I think the dwarf and his rubber stampers need a raise. They must be stressing big time trying to figure out what to tax or sell next.
These poor souls working so hard for the average Joe.
Oh the humanity.
We will soon be a copy of Detroit!
bye bye some of u tac guys
I'm proud of my contribution to the deficit. I haven't bought gas or water in Cook County in over a year. The rebellion begins.
Hey Aldermen Banks, Doherty, Levar, Allen listen up. You better get the NW Side some of that.
Anonymous said...
SCC how about all of the TIFF MONEY can't the Mayo part with some to help settle the current situation? He is hoarding much of the TIFF MONEY and it is all tax payer money. How about putting it out for a vote?
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Vote for tax money?? We don't even get to vote for our replacement Senator. Some "Change" Obama....
I have been out of chicago for 3 months now. I am in arizona where because of lack of funds they are laying people off. Most of the cities are laying off everyone but police and fire. The same is for the state. They are not raising taxes but trying to do more with less.
Tax and spend chicago, cook county and illinois.
Be careful out there
old retired guy
Scc,
I have a story for you which should get some attention. Police shooting in Area one a couple of nights ago. Area Four gets called in to handle it and comes up with a couple of witnesses.
Lt Tony Wojcik, Area Four Hgs Lt is walking the witnesses to get them into the round table when a high ranking IPRA Investigatir stops them and says that they want to interview the witnesses first. Lt Wojcik gets Ito a beef with IPRA and tells the Investigator that he is going to get locked up for Obstruction if he doesn t step aside
Witnesses go in to round table. Good shoot as usual
Stand up Boss.
Any chance we can get shotguns, like we got rifles?
The CTA just GOT a fvcking huge stimulus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our cameras are rolling!
This copper is done. So will you if you forget it's there!!!
Does video catch cop in DUI lie?
'BLATANT FALSEHOOD' | Video shows no staggering, swaying
The video from top DUI cop Joe D. Parker's squad car shows a man walking a straight line, without stumbling or flailing his arms.
But Parker, a Chicago Police officer who has won acclaim for being among the leading DUI enforcers in the state, told a different story in his police report.
He wrote that Raymond L. Bell lost his balance and used his arms to steady himself. And he arrested the 33-year-old Oak Lawn man on charges of driving under the influence, speeding and negligent driving.
Now, after reviewing the squad-car video, Cook County prosecutors have dropped the July 2008 charges against Bell.
Money from washington going to CPS. What a waste of money. Those mutts dont want to be there and will never contribute to society. They could spend a millon dollars per kid and the scores will still be shit.
Its amazing how we can be short of money all the time. If the mayor would stop flooding city agencies with high ppaid political help and have honest purchasing, maybe thing would be a lot better.
I just read an article were the public schools had 4 times the administration as private schools! Thats a lot of high paid joobs doing very little.
Anonymous said...
I fled that shithole in '93.
Used to be a standing joke to see 10 Streets and San workers standing around watching one or two do all the work.
I owned a home on the SW side near Gage Pk. and once the gangbangers moved in, it no longer was safe to go out at night.
To add insult, the little jag kept raising property taxes every year.
Fuck him.
Now I live in a one stop-light town an hours drive away.
The CPS is going down the shitter too. Huberjag doesn't have the ability to change shit. The real problem with the CPS is multiculturalism, the lack of parental involvement, linguistic difficulties when the little esay's can't speak english.
There is no answer other than the White's leaving the city to avoid a broken dumbed down education system.
Too bad.
3/12/2009 06:52:00 AM
You were smart! Now I have a streetlight out and it will take 8-10 weeks to have repaired as daley has laid off most of the work force,to keep himself cash rich!
No problem. Just get rid of the entire police department & put up a lot of cameras. (do i really need a sarcasm tag?)
They did "mention" that a property tax hike is in the offing to "help" plug the hole. Knew that was coming.
OT:
Leaders of San Francisco's police officers union have accused Weather Underground co-founder Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, of taking part in the 1970 bombing of a city police station that killed a sergeant, the San Francisco Chronicle is reporting.
Obama'a buddy.
FBI searches DC government office recently headed by Obama appointee
By Associated Press
9:20 AM CDT, March 12, 2009
Another buddy.
Empty Cylinder said:
Detroit, we're here.
everyone off the bus.
Middle class taxed to the hilt begining to flee city.
Services cut to zero.
Pols hands deep in the pockets of everyone.
Spending money that does not exist with no intention of repayment.
Zero industry, gone.
Crime skyrocketing! Murder, no less.
All income gathering revenue sold off leaving none for future administrations.
Top heavy, over paid, crooks in charge of every aspect of municipal govt.City, County, State.
No support for law enforcement whatsoever.
Nanny State Burke and his ilk worried about animal procreation...the wrong animals.
Help, we've fallen and we can't get up.
why does the cta need more money. when they budgeted for fuel projections we were paying over 4 dollars a gallon. now that the number is halved they should be experiencing a windfall, not a deficit. has the cta, cps, or county ever had a budget surplus--never. the city and county were crying poor mouth 40 years ago and they will be doing the same 40 years into the future. the thieves keep thieven and the peasants keep payin--
So Duncan, the lisping retard screwed the schools, and now the guy who screwed up the CTA is going to work his magic on the schools. Property taxes up, but don't worry, we'll be bailing out people who can't afford their mortgages. WTF
How are middle class residents fleeing the city if the real estate transfer tax is down?
The real estate transfer tax punishes the seller of a city property.
Are these fleeing residents just abandoning their homes?
Get your head on straight SCC.
Here is the link for the payouts for the stimulus money sent out to Illinois.
http://blogs.dailyherald.com/node/1597
Nice to see CPS getting 190k, but a private university gets 400k. for an accelerated nursing program...who is going to make it into this program when no one can read.
theres no shortage of tact teams, lotta two year wonders running around everywhere with their hats on backwards.
OT: anyone got a list of the new Lts?? please post. t/y
I miss the days of the Seiser and Hitney jokes.
Who will be the next Goof to step up and take their place.
Maybe we could loan the CTA the money that they are short, from the police pension fund. So what.... every one else gets to use the money! Daley's family gets free access to it.
P.S.
My daughter wants to go to law school, can Mr. Huberman help me out?
MIKE SHIELDS FOR PRES OF FOP!!!!
There is no answer other than the White's leaving the city to avoid a broken dumbed down education system.
Too bad.
3/12/2009 06:52:00 AM ............................Well you must be board out of your ass in that one stop light town. Why you concerning yourself with us if you got it so good? The rest of the Midwest blows outside of Chicago and you know it.
http://www.wbez.org/files/StimulusProjects.pdf
Breakdown of every dollar the city will spend of the stimulus money. Nice to see we're going to spend three million dollars on in car cameras.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
theres no shortage of tact teams, lotta two year wonders running around everywhere with their hats on backwards.
3/12/2009 01:02:00 PM
Ccan someone please tell me where I can buy one of those backward hats. All of the hats I see are forward pointing. There must be a special Tact baseball hat store.
Please tell!
1.5 year wonder hoping for tact.
A cost study of victim/offenders from the time they drop out of Crane, Dunbar, CVS, or wherever until they are released from physical rehab. after taking their first bullet would blow people's minds. Think of the amount of $$$ each one sucks up in services:
1.) Several arrests after dropping out of HS.
2.) Cost of crimes committed on other victim/offenders.
2.) Police/Fire resources used at the time they're shot.
3.) ER
4.) ICU
5.) Re-hab center.
6.) Shrinks, Social workers, etc....
7.) Court costs.
Every predator who survives being shot by another predator costs approx. $950,000 from shooting date to release from re-hab.
And.....how many aren't even American citizens? Approx. 34%
The people have to start seeing these numbers.
I have a story for you which should get some attention. Police shooting in Area one a couple of nights ago. Area Four gets called in to handle it and comes up with a couple of witnesses.
Lt Tony Wojcik, Area Four Hgs Lt is walking the witnesses to get them into the round table when a high ranking IPRA Investigatir stops them and says that they want to interview the witnesses first. Lt Wojcik gets Ito a beef with IPRA and tells the Investigator that he is going to get locked up for Obstruction if he doesn t step aside
Witnesses go in to round table. Good shoot as usual
Stand up Boss.
3/12/2009 10:28:00 AM
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It was decided at a supervisor's meeting with Tom Byrne, at least a year ago, that this is how the situation was to be handled if it occurred. (We all figured it would come up soon.) Thank Byrne first.
How are middle class residents fleeing the city if the real estate transfer tax is down?
The real estate transfer tax punishes the seller of a city property.
Are these fleeing residents just abandoning their homes?
Get your head on straight SCC.
3/12/2009 12:57:00 PM
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SCC's head is on just fine, and yes, a LOT of people ARE just walking away from their homes, cutting their losses. It's putting banks and lenders into the real estate sales business like never before.
Do you really not know this?
Daley, Stroger and Quinn:
Don't think for a moment most of us will suffer additional taxes. Chicagoans are already the most severely taxed in the nation. We want rebates NOW.
If you have fiscal problems because of graft and negligence, you better follow the lead of other governments outside Illinois.
Legalize the following and tax the bejesus out of it:
(1) Casino Gambling
(2) Brothel Prostitution
(3) State grown Marijuana
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH,
I just realized I can retire in 6 years, the year before the Olympics.
The pleasure of paying higher taxes for those years will be bestowed upon me by the evil kabal, to the point I will be eating cat tuna, maybe even cats, to be able to hang onto my house.
When it's time to bid the city adieu, I will be able to sell my house, which was worth about $550K 18 months ago for about $150K.
I will be able to move to Tenessee and purchase a shanty with an outhouse, where I can set up a still to support myself.
I can buy some chickens and some hogs that I can raise so I can feed myself.
All of that will be my reward for serving faithfully, and honestly, and diligently for what will amount to 29 years and a day of service.
The good news? I will not have a heart attack before I retire, and I will not be suffering from high blood pressure when I finally leave this city, the one I loved, and served, for good.
That is because I am DONE. The next six years I will spend my eight hours reading the paper, sneaking in a nap, doing the crossword puzzle, stopping for coffee, two personals, a lunch, some shopping maybe.
A few years ago I drove my retiring partner to headquarters to turn in his papers. It was a morning filled with mixed emotions. He wanted to retire, but he was sad about leaving the department he loved.
Not so with me. I will walk into headquarters filled with nothing but glee, kicking up my heels. No melancholy moments for me, and most likely those that follow me. The CPD is as dead as a possum carcass on the interstate.
F-ck this piece of shit mayor, and the government that is going to steal my pension.
Be careful everyone, and enjoy the small things--it's only going to get worse.
Questioning our leaders will only lead to bad things.(happening to those leaders)
3/12/2009 05:56:00 AM
The hell with this BULLS--T! I pay for Catholic educations for all my kids and now I have to pay for deadbeat f--ks to send their assh--le kids to a public school. These parents make as much money as I do but my property taxes pay their kids tuition too as well as their books, field trips and little leagues. Oh I forget to mention their free lunches and school bus rides. This is for the f--ks up north in Jefferson Park and Edgebrook. Carry your own freight you IDIOTS!
Debt, debt everywhere but plenty to push for 2016. Oh my gosh, how much will the olympics cost? And you think your property taxes are high now? I know of one unit in CPD that should be a cash cow: Public Vehicle Enforcement. I have never known a hearing officer to access a fine under $500. But there are never more than 2 enforcement officers working any watch, usually only 1 copper for over 5,000 taxis. And if Obama is in Hyde Park, there will probably be no one chasing the cabs, as public vehicle will be on detail. The Board of Ed. could start charging various fees to public school students. My ex lives in Evanston and it costs about $300 to send a kid to public high school! I have a friend at the Board who tells me that most Chicago students already get a free lunch and half get free breakfast. If these kids are that poor, can't mom buy lunch fixings with her Link card? Jsut what is school for? Anything past the 3 R's should be scrutinized for cost..If the red light cameras work so well, let's just put them up at every intersection and lower my property taxes! Nothing will change until we starting electing a real government instead of a quasi-criminal enterprise. I am confused though, nobody I've met in the last few years ever voted for King Richard-how did he ever get elected? But I am glad I didn't retire and move to Nevada.
TV news reported that one kid used a pair of scissors to hack up another kid at DuSable High School yesterday.
...and here comes Ron Huberman, minus his CTA hard hat and reflective vest. Christ, give him a white coat and a stethoscope and let him run County Hospital next.
Huberman pronounces "We believe it was an isolated incident at that school. It was under supervision."
This new "isolated incident" or "random incident" explanation is enough to make you scream. It's what people say when there's nothing they can say, but they're being paid to say something.
Let me see if I've got this right; as long as there were not simultaneous scissor attacks in every school in Chicago at exactly 2:17 PM, we're OK? No Baby Al Quaida here?
Does "It was under supervision" mean that this assault was planned, part of the learning experience?
Daley and everyone he allows around him all seem to be passing around the same jar of Lexapro -- frantic, barely clinging to reality, rushing around straightening the flower arrangements and aligning the place settings as the house burns...
"And now, I'm watching [Arne Duncan] on Charlie Rose, telling how he's planning to feed students three meals a day, buy them glasses...and 'meet the students' social and emotional needs.'"
--3/12/2009 01:17:00 AM
Remember when there was something called a "family" that took care of all this?
Now no child has a daddy, but every one has a "pastor." Remember the police impersonator? It was one of the "revs" speaking for him on TV...
Don' need no mama neither, you got WIC. Uh-huh.
Desperate for the Olympics!
Channel 7 TV reporting just now that Daley is offering FREE ROUND TRIP AIR FARE to over 10,000 Olympic athletes, coaches, and staff, at a cost of over 38 MILLION DOLLARS.
...in the middle of a depression...
CHICAGO 2016 - NOT!
ch2 news: daley to get 1 billion????????? money tp pave chicago avenue, congress (mich to Wells) and tenements on south side. no where did he state any of this is going toward public safety!!! stay tuned on this one. big shaft going to come from this stimuls package for himself. friendly contracts are in the air, but, none going for already due city bills...hold onto your butts tax payers. your going to see a raise in something.
careful out there
daley said what the money is going to be used for...dont worry, the police or fire was not even mentioned in the break down of the stimulus money...but public housing is going to get 144 million... what a joke.
"I'm seeing more and more board-ups in 16th District... who do you tax when the taxpayers leave?"
--3/12/2009 07:15:00 AM
...and that hole in the ground at 6060 Northwest Highway is another luxury condominium project that just died. Zitella owes Parkway Bank $3 milion for the property (former Safco Corp., used to employ 100 people).
...which is just up the street from Zitella's not-selling luxury townhomes (where once stood Chicago Weaving), which are just across the street from the Schiele Graphics printing plant.
Schiele has closed down and moved away but the property will now be a condo project non-starter -- no construction financing available these days.
I knew what was going to happen along here ten years ago when I saw
Yuppie couples in wraparound shades and those expensive tubular-aluminum baby stroller things beginning to "discover" this working-class area on idle Sunday afternoons. Now all the jobs are gone AND the condos that have replaced them are half-vacant or unsalable hulks.
Way to go.
Who do you tax now to pay for the "multicultural academies?" Get out the thumbscrews and the "water cut off" stickers and absolutely tax the shit out of the remaining old people until you find them frozen to death in their bungalow for lack of heat, clutching a can of cat food. "They were always so quiet..."
OT:
A Department of Revenue worker today told me they were being instructed to go into CPD police parking lots to look for cars on the boot list and also cars with expired plates, no or expired city sticker and those plastic covers over your license plates.
Those covers can get a parking ticket. I have not seen any in the A3 lot but this guy was from the Dept of Revenue Office on Diversey/Ashland.
There will no doubt be some Dept. of Revenue ticket writers and boot crews cruising the police lots. he tells me that Dept. of Revenue supervisors all over the city are telling their crews to do this.
Another sign of appreciation by our Mayor.
Dismembered body found in Oak Park alley identified
A man whose dismembered body was found in bags in an Oak Park alley Wednesday morning has been identified Thursday. Rafael Ramirez, 18, of the 2700 block of North Nordica Avenue in Chicago, has been identified as the victim, according to Oak Park police. He wasidentified by various body markings. “We believe the victim was killed in another location and the body was randomly left in Oak Park,” Oak Park Police Chief Ricky C. Tanksley said.
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If only he had blown his Oak Park crime whistle, eh, Chief Tanksley?
Wasn't it just reported that public transportation is up to a all time high all over the U.S.? CTA was 5 1/2%.
Our cameras are rolling!
This copper is done. So will you if you forget it's there!!!
3/12/2009 10:49:00 AM
Brilliant!
How about just being a professional and then it doesn't matter if the damn thing is recording or not?
If you haven't figured it out yet, Daley is saving the property tax increase when our contract is settled. He'll stand up there and indirectly blame us for it. It's a given.
It looks like the rumored health care coverage for those 55 and older will happen. The Lt's and Sgt's unions were offered it and the FOP will be offered it as well. We just don't know what we will have to give up for it. Current contract lengths for the Lt's and Sgt's Union is somewhere in the 5 year range. Look for ours to be of similar length.
RE: Anonymous Anonymous said...
Here is the link for the payouts for the stimulus money sent out to Illinois.
http://blogs.dailyherald.com/node/1597
Nice to see CPS getting 190k, but a private university gets 400k. for an accelerated nursing program...who is going to make it into this program when no one can read.
"Ceasefire at the University of Illinois, Chicago. $500,000 for the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention to expand Ceasefire, an accelerated community-based prevention, intervention, treatment and advocacy initiative."
Ceasefire lives! lol
We're ALREADY a Copy of detroit...
Lt Tony Wojcik, Area Four Hgs Lt is a "STAND UP" guy.....
Homes in Detroit are selling for $17,000. Forward thinking huh mayor dickthief.
WGN-TV now showing the two Daley-clone weirdos, Weis and Huberman, having a "summit" about "Chicago Public School students being killed."
They stated that the latest fatality was 17 years old and "only a sophomore" in high school.
When I was 16 I had already graduated high school and was working full-time at a man's job.
I keep getting this mental picture of hulking, tattooed characters sitting with their knees in their faces at tiny little children's desks, trying to figure out which end of a pencil to use.
Words like "substandard" and "inadequate" come to mind, in so many ways...I'm struggling not to say "retarded."
Yes, they are just abandoning their homes....
They bought a 2/2 w/1 spot at the peak of the bubble in a "gentrifiying" area w/ no money down.
They missrepresented their income and now, due to the downturn, make less. Now, with falling r.e. values, they owe lots more on their unit than it would fetch on the market, if it would sell at all.
They are getting killed on taxes and finnaly have given up on the cubbies.
There is room at the family house in IA and they are going back....in droves !
Anonymous said...
I'm proud of my contribution to the deficit. I haven't bought gas or water in Cook County in over a year. The rebellion begins.
3/12/2009 09:52:00 AM
Me too. As much as I can is purchased outside of crook county.
Sometimes I spend more than I save just out of spite.
THE REBELLION CONTINUES.
Anonymous said...
theres no shortage of tact teams, lotta two year wonders running around everywhere with their hats on backwards.
3/12/2009 01:02:00 PM
I was in 002 the other day and saw this big nosed 3year blunder on tac. Supposedly her mother is a sgt somewhere. Baggy clothes, hat backwards, dirty hair hanging out from under it. Please... give me a break.
Anonymous said...
I miss the days of the Seiser and Hitney jokes.
Who will be the next Goof to step up and take their place.
3/12/2009 01:54:00 PM
That disctinction goes to lt james carroll. One year on the medical roll!
Hey, what about me?
I can be your personal goof.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Scc,
I have a story for you which should get some attention. Police shooting in Area one a couple of nights ago. Area Four gets called in to handle it and comes up with a couple of witnesses.
Lt Tony Wojcik, Area Four Hgs Lt is walking the witnesses to get them into the round table when a high ranking IPRA Investigatir stops them and says that they want to interview the witnesses first. Lt Wojcik gets Ito a beef with IPRA and tells the Investigator that he is going to get locked up for Obstruction if he doesn t step aside
Witnesses go in to round table. Good shoot as usual
Stand up Boss.
3/12/2009 10:28
Dear Deputy Peterson:
If Tony has to get spanked, can I be the one to do it?
Area Three Cougar
"If only he had blown his Oak Park crime whistle, eh, Chief Tanksley?"
--3/12/2009 07:00:00 PM
Oak Park's responsible! The whistles weren't bilingual models. How was poor Senor Hefty Bag to know until it was too late...
Saw on the Fox Cable News that a few states, like West Virginia and Texas were refusing the Federal bailout money because there were too many conditions attached.
But we all know that the States of ILL-noise and Shitcago will not turn the money down. They will take it and throw it at a whole bunch of poorly planned half-baked projects that will get about 1/2 done and then the money will be gone and everyone will be wondering where it went.
And Daley, if he is still mayor will mumble something about "it wasn't enough to begin with" and ask for more.
But there won't be any more. Not from the Feds or the local tax base. Because they will all be broke.
Chicago may look something like New York in the "Escape From New York" or the "Mad Max/Road Warrior" movies.
Ammo: Start stocking up now...
Go ahead, dude. Flee the city if you like.
But the whole bust-up started because people suddenly realized at $4/gallon, your house in Bolingbrook might be $30,000 cheaper up front, but it cost you $2K/year extra just to get groceries and drive to work.
"The people have to start seeing these numbers.
3/12/2009 04:39:00 PM"
The people have to start sighting in their scopes better.
Lt Tony Wojcik is one of the few great bosses left on this job. Great guy and a great Lt! He was missed when he left 008. Helped alot of people out. Thanks again Lt. A grateful P.O.
...which is just up the street from Zitella's not-selling luxury townhomes (where once stood Chicago Weaving), which are just across the street from the Schiele Graphics printing plant.
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I heard a couple of coppers put a deposit down on one when they were just starting construction. Later on, when Zitella got greedy, they returned the deposit and raised the price, refusing to honor the contract.
revolution via revolver said...
Anonymous said...
I'm proud of my contribution to the deficit. I haven't bought gas or water in Cook County in over a year. The rebellion begins.
3/12/2009 09:52:00 AM
Me too. As much as I can is purchased outside of crook county.
Sometimes I spend more than I save just out of spite.
THE REBELLION CONTINUES.
3/12/2009 09:38:00 PM
I buy all big ticket items from ABT, use my friend's address in Burlington Wisconsin and pay the delivery. That way NO TAX to Illinois or Cook County.
I buy cigars from a tobacco state, via UPS, NO TAX.
I guy gas in Indiana, NO Chicago, Cook County or Illinois tax.
I challenge the hell out of every property tax bill.
I write, at most, two parkers a day and NEVER for parking meters, they all get a free pass on my beat.
Only movers I write go with accidents. Nothing else. Daley thinks he can fuck us, well, he can see how it feels to get fucked by thousands.
CTA officials said Wednesday they believe they can find $80 million to cut from the agency's 2009 budget to cope with drastically lower-than-anticipated tax revenues.
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just why is it that the rest of us are subsidizing CTA users?
Fleeing the city:
Retired people, middle class, still viable and healthy, have been leaving this city most regularily for the past several years.
Take the blinders off.
It looks like the rumored health care coverage for those 55 and older will happen. The Lt's and Sgt's unions were offered it and the FOP will be offered it as well.
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This is bullshit. City isn't GIVING/"COVER[ING]" anything. It's going to be an account where you pay into it now and draw from it to cover "approved" medical expenses when you retire or are separated from the dept. Except the account isn't going to be like flex. It's going to be like deferred comp, where it's an investment account. So there is the potential for its value to DECREASE. And it'll be funded by taking a certain # of hours you have on the books and the city paying an hourly base salary amt for those hours. Too much to detail here, but that's the jist of it. FUCK YOU, DALEY.
I was at the meeting between the Det Div and IPRA. Chasen set the rules, not Byrne, not Peterson, not Wojick.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
"The people have to start seeing these numbers.
3/12/2009 04:39:00 PM"
The people have to start sighting in their scopes better.
3/13/2009 12:34:00 AM
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"the people" aren't supposed to have guns, remember? Shortshanks wants to make it even more difficult for non-cops to have the ability to defend themselves. I wish I could be like all the Aldermen and be a "peace officer" so I could carry to protect myself and family.
FIRE, all those b.s. TRAFFIC AIDS, they nearly got me broadsided when I responded to an assist call. Siren and all the lights on and they still did not see or hear us coming.
The idiot(s) are deaf with their headphones on, listening & bouncing to rap.
Watch for the soon to come planting of the ten million dollars of flowers for the pots in the loop. Note, the company that is contracted is not even located in "Crook County".
THE CITY IS SURE BROKE !!!
i could give arats ass if juv1 stabs juv2 bot shouldnt the police be there during the intervention?dont blame the cops blame huberfuck for not issuing a directive requiring security at these`meetings.
"...Zitella's not-selling luxury townhomes..."
"I heard a couple of coppers put a deposit down on one when they were just starting construction. Later on, when Zitella got greedy, they returned the deposit and raised the price, refusing to honor the contract."
--3/13/2009 01:38:00 AM
...so the thing stands empty today with huge "INCENTIVES! BUY ME! ONLY 1 LEFT! MODEL OPEN SUNDAYS!" banners beginning to disintegrate in the wind. Flap, flap, flap...
Unbelievable! Talk about arrogance and overconfidence. Oh, man. That was a smart move by the developer in a market where the BUYERS are massively walking away from their pre-construction deposits because they reflect a sale price that has dropped by half since they made the deposit.
This actually happens more in the high-end condo market where the customers can afford to just eat the deposit loss to stave off a bigger loss. They're not going to get hooked into that nightmare twice-what-it's-worth mortgage.
Zitella is almost certainly going to go bankrupt. I've never seen anyone so overextended --
Harlem Pointe Condominiums
Terrance Pointe
The Court Yard
Park Avenue
Park Place
River Front
Northwest Pointe Condominiums
The Avenue Condominiums On Harlem
The Pointe Of Harwood Heights
Harlem Avenue Terrace
Magnolia Pointe
The Verandas On Harlem Avenue
Clock Tower Pointe Of Harwood Heights
The Gardens Of Norwood Park
Sixty Sixty Place (canceled,failed)
vacant land at Irving/Cumberland
vacant land near Fullerton/Narragansett
I probably missed some. Some of these places aren't even finished yet, let alone sold -- and others will never be started.
As one news story today said, "The days of overheated housing markets and people maxing out on their credit cards are over."
"The days of overheated housing markets and people maxing out on their credit cards are over."
Here -- here's the definitive artist's conception of what the whole country was going to look like. Young metrosexuals rushing around in a blur spending money, forever and ever.
http://www.6060place.com/
location.html
This project has been canceled.
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"There will no doubt be some Dept. of Revenue ticket writers and boot crews cruising the police lots. he tells me that Dept. of Revenue supervisors all over the city are telling their crews to do this.
"Another sign of appreciation by our Mayor."
--3/12/2009 06:57:00 PM
Appreciation, hell. This is just biology.
With its food source -- live working taxpayers -- diminishing, the city monster is beginning to devour itself. One department eating another...
"3/13/2009 11:04:00 AM"
Daley: "I will gladly pay you Tuesday, for a hamburger Today!"
I thought the lottery was created to help pay for public education. Where does all that money go?
"I'm seeing more and more board-ups in 16th District... who do you tax when the taxpayers leave?"
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It was not all that long ago that well known police supporter Jesse Jackson was trying to push through a plan to "invest" public employee pension money in various "infrastructure" projects.
Lt Wojcik gets Ito a beef with IPRA and tells the Investigator that he is going to get locked up for Obstruction if he doesn t step aside
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One might think the various power mind type bosses would have gotten together a long time ago and worked out some kind of protocol for how IPRA invesitagtions are handled.
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