Saturday, August 08, 2009

Obama Furlough Days

  • President Obama — and every federal employee — should take 15 unpaid furlough days for the sake of the country, Mayor Daley suggested today.

    They need to suck it up and feel the pain Americans have endured in the economic downtown that has seen jobs and wages slashed, he said.

    “I hope every federal employee from the president all the way down takes 15 days without pay to turn that money back to taxpayers’ use, because they’re getting laid off, they’re getting cut back, there are no jobs out there,” Daley said Friday.

Or is this a clue that the White House is secretly run out of City Hall? Hmmm.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Mayor Daley has never taken one furlough day nor has his aide Jacqelyn Heard! Documented Fact!!!

8/08/2009 12:11:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

SCC, thanks for posting it,

for anyone here...follow this:

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/mr-big-spender-daleys-central-loop-tif-binge/Content?oid=1173292

Come on U.S. Attorney's Office, FBI, pull a rat our of your hat!

8/08/2009 12:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Uh, yeah, right; because the President of these United States is a non-critical employee.

And the mayor of Chicago? Well, he's so important, he can't take ANY days without pay (that would mean days without being on the take, as well, of course).

NO ONE should be taking any 'furlough' days. Government should not be so badly mismanaged that such a thing should ever be necessary. And if government IS that badly mismanaged, then we need to un-elect the underperforming managers.

8/08/2009 12:17:00 AM  
Blogger TWENTY and OUT said...

HEY DALEY YOU STUPID FUCK, It's called an ECONOMIC DOWNTURN. A country cannot go on forever without going through tough times. Instead of asking employees to take unpaid furlough days WHY DIDN'T YOU AND THE OTHER DUMB FUCKING ALDERMEN PLAY IT A LITTLE MORE CONSERVATIVE WHEN TIMES WERE GOOD. No instead you put up MILLIONS of dollars worth of BULLSHIT PLANTERS in the MIDDLE of STREETS all over this DAMN CITY. Now those planters require a yearly budget for upkeep. YOU chose to SELL OFF EVERYTHING EVEN THE SHIT THAT WAS NAILED AND/OR CEMENTED DOWN! This meter fiasco is a complete CLUSTERFUCK and all you needed to do was increase prices a LITTLE and the windfall would have been tremendous. Your bullshit T.I.F.'s, the black hole called the Olympics, and all the "perks" you and your friends have. How about instead nobody other than emergency personnel get a take home vehicle. After all even if someone gets called out in the middle of the night only emergency vehicles can disobey traffic devices right? Just reimburse the rest for milage on emergency callouts. Have them submit paperwork along with a printout from mapquest or google with the route and distance of their drive and give them gas money. Cut some of these bullshit free handouts to everyone that cries poor. HOW ABOUT YOU JUST FOLLOW FEDERAL LAW, and rescind your sanctuary city bullshit. I can't even BEGIN to imagine the impact that has on the city finances. Until then FUCK YOU AND YOUR DIRTBAG FAMILY

8/08/2009 12:22:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'll say it once again, it was that stroke Clinton how signed off on NAFTA and gave away our jobs to China and India. Keep voting democRAT!

8/08/2009 12:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

He is such an asshole.

8/08/2009 12:29:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Or is this a clue that the White House is secretly run out of City Hall? Hmmm."


Depends.

Let's see if potus runs with it.

8/08/2009 12:39:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

As much as I dislike Obama, Someone please tell me he told Shortshanks to "Shut the fuck up, little man!" Please.... Someone?...

8/08/2009 12:45:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Let's start with the aldermen. Then J-Pud, and the Mayor. I'm not taking any unpaid days. Screw them. Get us a flipping contract.

8/08/2009 01:15:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I don't see Obama /Congress doing with a little less for the cause. I think they should be the first to lead the country in example.

8/08/2009 01:17:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm so glad he feels that way, when are he and the Alerman going to do the same? how bout giving back that 6% they gave themselves? when all that happens i'll believe it; when are the unions going to sue to open the books and see what the city really has?

8/08/2009 01:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How about the comrads of Obama from Acorn, do they have to take non-paid days off, or should this administration just give them more money?

8/08/2009 01:45:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Fuck You Shortshanks !!!!!!!!!! You Dirtbag !!!!!!!!!

8/08/2009 02:05:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What an asshole!!!!! He's telling the President of the United States to take unpaid days off but I have yet to hear of Little Dickie and the fifty theives taking any unpaid time off. Did I miss the press release or something?? If I'm wrong someone correct me and give the link to the article. I don't like Hussain Obama but who the f@#k does Dickie think he is??

8/08/2009 02:33:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

HE'S NUTSO.......

8/08/2009 02:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

He's either lost his mind, or...

errr...

ahhh...

hmmmm?






No, he has definitely, OFFICIALLY LOST HIS FUCKING MIND!!!

Now let's get him committed and stop all this insane Olympics BULLSHIT!

8/08/2009 03:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It wasn't a secret to we Chicagoans before last November. Now the rest of the country, nay, the World! is finding out the truth.

8/08/2009 04:10:00 AM  
Anonymous PLANNING AHEAD IS SMART said...

OT - Daley won't tell secrets

DALEY REFUSES TO TALK ABOUT INSIDER'S OLYMPIC DEAL
August 7, 2009 10:03 PM
Mayor Richard Daley today declined to answer questions about a Tribune story on how a member of his Olympic bid team arranged to develop city-owned land near a park that would be transformed for the 2016 Summer Games, potentially positioning himself to cash in if the Games come here.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%


THE CORRUPTION HAS STARTED ALREADY... AND WE DON'T EVEN HAVE THE GAMES YET!!!

WELL, I GUESS WE SHOULD GET OUR CORRUPT DUCKS IN A ROW JUST IN CASE... IT'S THE PRUDENT THING FOR AN INSIDER TO DO!!!

OH, AND IT'S NOT THE MAYORS' JOB TO SELL NEWSPAPERS SO HE REFUSES TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS. HOW DARE YOU ASK THE CORRUPT LITTLE WEASEL ABOUT HIS CRIME FAMILY... THAT INFORMATION IS CLASSIFIED AND NOT TO BE GIVEN TO THE PUBLIC! HAVEN'T YOU EVER HEARD OF THE HIPAA LAWS???

H- is
I- nsider
P- als
A- lways
A- cquire

YEAH, THEY ACQUIRE WEALTH, CASH, PROPERTY, PERMITS, CONTRACTS, TAX BREAKS, YOU NAME IT! IF YOU'RE A DALEY/BURKE CRIME FAMILY INSIDER, YOU CAN ACQUIRE UNTOLD RICHES.
.

8/08/2009 04:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Da Mayo runs the White House just like the old man did under Kennedy!

8/08/2009 05:22:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What? Da Mayor thinks he's running D.C now?

8/08/2009 05:29:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why would he say such things? Because he's coo-coo, coo-coo...
Seriously, he needs a mental health screening.
I'm sure the Obamessiah will get right on that....

8/08/2009 05:44:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

We need to start a slush fund of our own, along the lines of a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of one Ritchie Daley on charges of public corruption. Hizzoner would likely have a stroke and save the payout.....

8/08/2009 05:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

When is the mayor and the city council going to take their furlough days?

8/08/2009 06:17:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Right. Feel the pain. Read the topic from the Reader about the hundreds of millions from the downtown TIF that Daley squandered. he could have put that money aside for schools or even used it to plug his so-called budget hole.

Daley lies.

8/08/2009 06:42:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

To All Federal Employees
All State of Illinois Employees
All Cook County Employees
All City of Chicago Employees

From: A Long Time Fed-Up City Employee Who Never Did and Never Will Vote for the Evil Prick.

Subject: A Call to Action and Resistance

You don't have to read this blog to know that this Evil Little Man has been brutally taking our hard earned money and squandering it on his pals and his megalomaniacal dreams. His high taxes on us fund his crimes and his contractor/campaign contributors.

Now he wants us, all levels of government employees to withhold our services to the people, give back our salaries, money for our families BEFORE WE GET IT!

FOR WHAT!?!?! For campaign contributors to get rich to build Olympic venues that we can't afford and don't want. For more flower pots when our streets are for shit; for a bigger body guard detail on him and Burke and Pflager and all the rest.

FEDERAL EMPLOYEES who might read this blog, prosecutors and investigators, do you remember Dan Rostenkowski? He took yours and ours Social Security Benefits. It was employees in the Congressional Post Office who blew the whistle on him and brought him down. We need to find the people in city government and private enterprise here who can put away this Evil Little Man before it is too late.

If anyone in city government knows anything, when the money is being stolen, remember that if it better to go to the feds and maybe get a finders fee than to spend money on a criminal attorney.

Stay safe out there, maybe Obama who I don't like is thinking right now, "I've got to get
rid of this guy." Could somebody flash that on his teleprompter?

8/08/2009 07:52:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Take a lesson from Ike Carouthers. Not a smart idea to call out the Feds when your dirty as fuck.

8/08/2009 08:06:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The TIFs have been the mechanism for the massive looting of this city. Its welfare for favored businesses that support him. Explain to your neighbors, most people in Chicago still don't know what a TIF is.

8/08/2009 08:49:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OMG!! What a stroke!!

8/08/2009 09:30:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

.....and don't forget that it was Bill Daley that got NAFTA pushed through the "Chicago way."

8/08/2009 10:00:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Mayor Daley has never taken one furlough day nor has his aide Jacqelyn Heard! Documented Fact!!!

8/08/2009 12:11:00 AM

Heard $180,000 per year wasted plus car and drivers!

8/08/2009 10:19:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
What an asshole!!!!! He's telling the President of the United States to take unpaid days off but I have yet to hear of Little Dickie and the fifty theives taking any unpaid time off. Did I miss the press release or something?? If I'm wrong someone correct me and give the link to the article. I don't like Hussain Obama but who the f@#k does Dickie think he is??

8/08/2009 02:33:00 AM

Call the shitcago city clerks office 312-744-8590 and ask how many have taken their "furlough dalys" they keep track of all alderthieves!

8/08/2009 10:21:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What "Lil Richard" really means is everyone should take off 15 days so I don't look like the bitch that I am, and as a bonus there will be even more money for me to steal!!!!!!! I'm such a criminal, my dad is looking up from hell proud as can be!

8/08/2009 10:29:00 AM  
Anonymous Chuck D said...

what Daley really means is, turn over the 15 days pay so he and others like him can steal it, not use it for taxpayers

8/08/2009 10:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Mayor must think that he is in charge. He should have learned when President Obama took over Grant Park and the Mayor had no say so.

8/08/2009 11:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

FOP is talking to the City about us taking 3 furlough days. Looks like it may happen in 2010.

8/08/2009 11:20:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Listen to Micheal Savage on 560 WIND. He says the White house is nothing but the 51st ward and is controlled by the corrupt Chicago Machine.

8/08/2009 11:31:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This will be great, Obama and his admin taking days off without pay, followed by the Mayor and aldermen
....so that will leave the door open for Police Officers and Firemen to do the same...I think NOT...another anybody but me scenario...

8/08/2009 11:58:00 AM  
Anonymous hippy-dippy-1 said...

Anonymous said...
I'll say it once again, it was that stroke Clinton how signed off on NAFTA and gave away our jobs to China and India. Keep voting democRAT!

8/08/2009 12:28:00 AM
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I guess you could say it until you are dead, but it won't change the fact that it was George H.W. Bush that signed NAFTA. It was ratified by Congress under Clinton, but it was not his baby.

None of this is meant to glorify Clinton.

8/08/2009 12:04:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What makes me laugh is that so many people on this site keep asking where is Fitzgerald...I can tell you right now, he's in Daley's pocket like the good little mook that he is....The president himself is a product of the most corrupt political system the nation has ever seen and nobody sees it or seems to care and nothing will be done about it, only the names and faces change.....the same old song will remain the same. Funny how it reminds me of colonial America right before and leading up to the revolution.

8/08/2009 01:20:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That liitle Irish prick thinks he's the President of the United States. He's not a pimple on Obamas's ass!!

8/08/2009 01:37:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Things that make you go
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

8/08/2009 01:38:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A reward is a GREAT idea. Imagine Crime boss Daley's reaction if it was publicized that his own police were contributing to a reward fund payable to anyone who provided information leading to Daley's, Burke's, Stroger's arrest and conviction as thieves?

Talk about bad publicity for the thieving rats! Plus it would make all of them national laughing stocks.

8/08/2009 01:39:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"I'll say it once again, it was that stroke Clinton how signed off on NAFTA and gave away our jobs to China and India. Keep voting democRAT!

8/08/2009 12:28:00 AM"


After Reagan dismantled the banking regulations that kept Goldman Sachs from creating a depression like it did in the 30's-clinton helped out the agenda and the Republican Congress shoved NAFTA down Clinton's throat and he had to sign off.

Funny- Goldman Sachs is at the center of this depression too.


Our jobs went to China and India because American companies wanted profit for themselves rather than paying American workers a living wage - or Unionized workers or worker that needed to have health care.

And- by the way- since NAFTA is the North American Free Trade Agreement- which involves Canada, Mexico and the United States- how the hell are you linking it to China and India- which are not part of North America- get a frickin' atlas goof ball!

Then read some more history.

The bottom line- the American middle class is disappearing and all these people that think the republican party is looking out for the middle class are delusional. Check out the libertarian party, the independents, the green party or whatever you want to be other than a democrat but at least do your own thinking and research.


Don't be sheep and blame everything on the DemoRats-you have a lot of wage and work conditions you accept as your rights that are the direct result of Democrats favoring workers over fat cats.

8/08/2009 03:23:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It is too bad that someone did not cut a hole in the floor of the outside observation area of the Sears Tower last week when Da Mayo stepped on the platform. On his way down he would still be thinking how to steal more tax payer money for his overseas accounts. Wagon men would have come from all districts just to confirm the wicked wizard of the lakefront was dead!!! Then the citizens would have to worry about the wicked wizard of the south Ed Burke!!

8/08/2009 03:43:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Kinda OT: ask your Lt or Capt to see their proposed contracts. No raises, they'll agree to them and then the forced FOP arbitration fails and everyone gets nothing. Ask, beg, plead your Lt and Capt to vote no.

8/08/2009 03:47:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'll say it once again, it was that stroke Clinton how signed off on NAFTA and gave away our jobs to China and India. Keep voting democRAT!

8/08/2009 12:28:00 AM

The Chief architect of the NAFTA Agreement was none other than Da Mayor's brother William Daley.

The Democratic Party did more damage to the middle class and to Unionized Labor than the GOP ever could.

The Democratic Party is the ENEMY of the working man, the death of the middle class and the enslavement of a once free and proud America.


Wakeup America!

8/08/2009 04:09:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

the only thing that comes out of his mouth is mush!!

8/08/2009 04:25:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

COO COO COO!

AGAIN I SAY

COO COO COO!

8/08/2009 04:29:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"No, he has definitely, OFFICIALLY LOST HIS FUCKING MIND!!!

Now let's get him committed and stop all this insane Olympics BULLSHIT!"

He cannot even keep his freaking hair washed...isn't bad hygiene a sign of being mentally incapacitated?

8/08/2009 07:04:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Daley lies.

8/08/2009 06:42:00 AM

All together now, how can you tell when the mayor is lying?

8/08/2009 09:26:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Obama must be thinking, "SHUT THE FUCK UP!"

8/08/2009 09:41:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If Daley is saying shit like this in the media, it must be clear then that he and the Messiah are not communicating.

Obama has his handlers, the people who put things for him to say on his teleprompter. Some of those people are the Attorney General of the United States, Eric Holder; the Director of the F.B.I., Robert Mueller and his own Chief of Staff Chicagoanftge4 Rahm Emmanuel.

Any one of them,in private briefings has probably told Obama that Shortshanks, is toxic and will eventually be prosecuted and convicted. This is not like the old days, of J.F.K. and Richard J. Dakey when you could trust that things like massive vote fraud and sexual encounters with the likes of Marilyn Monroe would be overlooked. They all would have told him that the only thing that Richie can do now is to hurt you. He has served his purpose and you now need to distance yourself before the fall.

When Richie does fall, Obama will be splattered with the mud, but will be saved by liberal-fascism and political correctness.

Then one of his last acts as President will be to pardon Shortshanks from Club Fed.

8/08/2009 11:12:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What a Second!

Isn’t this the same goof who said in the media a month or so ago said that Obama should “think out of the box” about finances and sell off United States assets, like our National Parks and Highway System, to who, his cronies?!?!

Obama really has to be thinking, “YOU IDIOT, SHUT THE FUCK UP!”

I somehow think Rahm Emmanuel will be making a phone call, or a visit to the Evil Little Man to tell him just that. I would like to hear that conversation, the line will probably be tapped or the room bugged by the G.

And what Michelle will say to Maggie about this might not be suitable for Oprah.

8/09/2009 05:22:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Shortshanks helped create the Obama-Messiah but he is now like Frankenstein's Monster.

The "Leader of the Free World" is out of his control and threatening to destroy him.

8/09/2009 09:29:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think I will clip out the Sun-Times article and send it to Conan O'Brien and David Letterman.

Show what a national laughing stock this miserable prick is that he can suggest this to the President of the United States. We should start writing the jokes for the monologues.

Richie Daley is the OLD DemocRat Party of the elder Kennedy Clan and Chicago Ward politics. There they created jobs and prosperity for the working middle class and got rich off of it.

Barrack Hussein Obama is the NEW DemocRat Party of Liberal-Fascism and the Internet. There the redistribute the wealth and prosperity of the middle class to the non-working and they get rich off of that too.

8/09/2009 05:08:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

FOP is talking to the City about us taking 3 furlough days. Looks like it may happen in 2010.

8/08/2009 11:20:00 AM

UMMM. I pick 25 DEC, 1 JAN anddddd
Bud Billikin day. I encourage all other coppers to do the same.

Then, hit the medical and make them back three-fold. Would be the first time for me on the med. in over 15years.

First time for everything though

8/09/2009 09:14:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

>>>FOP is talking to the City about us taking 3 furlough days. Looks like it may happen in 2010.

8/08/2009 11:20:00 AM<<

DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!

It will give the Daley something to feed the Arbitrator.

It will be like the "only $2.00 a paycheck for our health insurance"...3 days this year... next time ?

I recently had the pleasure of meeting with some LAPD officers.
There they want UNPAID WORK DAYS!

8/10/2009 07:20:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

washington d c the 51st ward
not state

8/10/2009 02:17:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

TYPICAL DEMOCRAT HYPOCRACY

ON "ABC-TV" (BETTER KNOWN AS THE ALL BARRACK CHANNEL) DURING THE "NETWORK SPECIAL ON HEALTH CARE".... OBAMA WAS ASKED:

"MR. PRESIDENT WILL YOU AND YOUR FAMILY GIVE UP YOUR CURRENT HEALTH CARE PROGRAM AND JOIN THE NEW 'UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE PROGRAM' THAT THE REST OF US WILL BE ON ????"..... (BET YOU ALREADY KNOW THE ANSWER)...

THERE WAS A STONEY SILENCE AS OBAMA IGNORED THE QUESTION AND CHOSE NOT TO ANSWER IT !!!...

IN ADDITION, A NUMBER OF SENATORS WERE ASKED THE SAME QUESTION AND THERE RESPONSE WAS..."WE WILL THINK ABOUT IT."

AND THEY DID. IT WAS ANNOUNCED TODAY ON THE NEWS THAT THE "KENNEDY HEALTH CARE BILL" WAS WRITTEN INTO THE NEW HEALTH CARE REFORM INITIATIVE ENSURING THAT CONGRESS WILL BE 100%EXEMPT !

SO, THIS GREAT NEW HEALTH CARE PLAN THAT IS GOOD FOR YOU AND I... IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR OBAMA, HIS FAMILY OR CONGRESS...?? WE (THE AMERICAN PUBLIC) NEED TO STOP THIS PROPOSED DEBACLE ASAP !

THIS IS TOTALLY WRONG !

PERSONALLY, I CAN ONLY ACCEPT A UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE OVERHAUL THAT EXTENDS TO EVERYONE... NOT JUST US LOWLY CITIZENS... WHILE THE WASHINGTON "ELITE" KEEP RIGHT ON WITH THEIR GOLD-PLATED HEALTH CARE COVERAGE'S.

While we are at it, do you think that the insurance the 55 and out is going to be any good. Will it be worthless. $100 office visits and $50 drug co-pays, and deny everything!? What does the Mayor and the Aldermen have as Health Plans? What are their deductables?

I got a BAD feeling about all this.

8/10/2009 03:20:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How about 15 IOD days instead?

8/11/2009 04:13:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

IS DALEY EVER GOING TO BE OUT OF OFFICE?

8/11/2009 09:36:00 PM  

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