Volunteers?
Don't "volunteers" work for free?
So why is it we're getting word that certain people (and folks) working "Safe Passage" are actually being paid something over minimum wage, courtesy of the connected ministers?
Isn't it bad enough that we have to pay folks (and people) to babysit and parent their own children? Now are we finding out where the rest of Huberman's $66 million is going?
So why is it we're getting word that certain people (and folks) working "Safe Passage" are actually being paid something over minimum wage, courtesy of the connected ministers?
Isn't it bad enough that we have to pay folks (and people) to babysit and parent their own children? Now are we finding out where the rest of Huberman's $66 million is going?
Labels: money questions
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
21 Comments:
Last week, while driving my children to school, I noticed these "safe passage" goofs working as crossing guards. I was wondering what the hell that was. Now I know.
My TAXES being misspent again. Why not put that money towards TEACHERS...instead of ANOTHER welfare to (no)work program for these DEGENERATES?
unfortunately, this $66,000,000.00 is a mere drop in the bucket of taxpayer financed handouts our fecklessly generous state, county and city political whores dole out every day.
Politicians tell the taxpayers they have to tighten their belts while they practice there's always more where that came from.
---not a cop
Oh but of course, patronage isn’t dead, it is just being re-invented.
And who in their right minds believes that paying some useless drag on society ten bucks an hour is going to motivate them to care for their progeny ? Most animals in the wild will at least do that by instinct, but not the ghetto dwellers of Chicago and bribing them with some extra crack money isn’t going to change that fact.
Yeah, SCC. Wasting the $ there and in that "safe schools" crap where they throw tons o' money into a program to "help those most at risk." There was a bunch o' money thrown into the pot for one...yes, ONE..."at-risk" student at a southwest-side high school last year. He was killed within the first couple of weeks after school started. Guess they didn't send enough $!
Wouldn't that $ be better used to fund established, well-run, after-school programs for ALL children, not just those considered "at risk?" My kid's school does a great job offering an hour or more of a wide variety of after-school activities on a limited budget each and every year from October-March, but there is always a struggle to come up with the $ for it. CPS should spend it where it is appreciated and well used......
"parent their own children"--- most of these slobs can't take care of themselves and then they decide to have children--- uncle sam will pay the rent, utilities, groceries, medical, and education costs--- how can a couple decide to conceive a child and bring it into this world with no way to support said child--- that child is shot in the foot from the moment it takes its first breath--- bust out parents breed bust out kids and we see the results on the morning news everyday---
So much for that old adage, "Crime doesn't pay." It seems if you live in da hood, you get paid not to commit crimes.
OT but look at the fema flood money scandal. people are showing up outside 005 in brand new cars to put flood money on their link cards.
just wait, soon we will all be "volunteers" in obammas new society.
This is Not the CHANGE I want!
No money to hire more police. But this. An estamated 60 million would hire 1000 police.
whoopeeeeee!
free money for everyone!!!!!
signed,
corky
Quit giving money away to these people. Make them learn how to take care of their own problems. All they do is bitch and blame someone else then. They feel that they are owed a free ride because of their poverty situation instead of getting off their asses and becoming responsible parents, who in turn teach their kids to become responsible. Sick and tired of the bullshit. I struggle to make ends meet, they get the fucking handouts and just want more...fuck that.
parents are paid to walk children to school , only in chitcawgo
--- how can a couple decide to conceive a child and bring it into this world with no way to support said child---
I don't think that a lot of these parents give any thought to bringing a child into this world. Not using birth control = kid. Mom gets pregnant, dad disappears.
Why aren't the safe passage people in other neighborhoods ? Don't they deserve the extra measures?
$4 million in grants over two years to groups who believe they can improve safety for students going to and from 12 neighborhood high schools, officials said today.
The high schools are: Bowen, which has three small schools in one building, Clemente, Corliss, Crane, Fenger, Harlan, Harper, Hyde Park, Julian, Morgan Park, Robeson and Tilden.
The funding is the latest round of money to be made available by the district as it works to implement a $60 million, two-year anti-violence strategy aimed at helping at-risk youth, creating calm schools and providing safe passage to high school students. The initiative is funded through federal stimulus money.
Earlier this month, the district requested proposals from community organizations to provide mentoring services to 3,000 of its most at-risk students over two years, for a total of $10 million in grants. That announcement came on the heels of a similar sized grant given to Pennsylvania-based Youth Advocate Programs, Inc. to offer intensive mentoring services for the 250 students deemed most likely to be shot.
In addition, 38 high schools whose students were involved in 80 percent of the city's youth violence have submitted plans for calming their schools.
The safe passage proposals requested today will seek groups with at least 3 years of experience offering safety services for high-risk kids, according to district guidelines. Groups will be responsible for tailoring a specific strategy for kids to get to and from school based on unique neighborhood factors, dismissal times and popular forms of student transportation.
Groups selected to provide the services will be given radio communication equipment to coordinate safe passage efforts between Chicago Public Schools, the Chicago Police Department and the Chicago Transportation Authority, according to the documents seeking proposals.
Providers will be responsible for telling police and school officials when incidents occur. In addition, the groups will list vacant buildings and those infested by gangs and drugs along school routes and give street-level intelligence about potential conflicts brewing.
Reminds me of the CETA program under Carter. They took people who hung around in front of "L" stations all day, put them in brown coveralls, and paid them to stand around in front of "L" stations all day -- except now they were not called "panhandlers," but "transit aides."
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Just for fun, I asked one --
"Is this an A or a B stop?"
"Uh...uh...consult de ticketin' agen' inside de station."
The sign over his head said "B."
This went on until the money ran out.
It's the way they were raised in Shitcago. It started with the projects & "ADC" (Ah's Dayleys Cousin). It's how the machine "buys" Votes !!!!!!!!!
Anonymous said...
just wait, soon we will all be "volunteers" in obammas new society.
9/13/2010 05:25:00 AM
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Obama is like a disposible Enema, only good for one time !!!!!
"There was a bunch o' money thrown into the pot for one...yes, ONE...'at-risk' student at a southwest-side high school last year. He was killed within the first couple of weeks after school started. Guess they didn't send enough $!"
--9/13/2010 01:53:00 AM
Aaa. Hahaha. Whee! I don't know where to begin.
At least he was correctly identified as being "at risk" -- the criteria probably being standing on the corner outside the school in a mass of baggy clothing and untied shoelaces, holding his genitals in one hand and a cell phone in the other while shouting unintelligibly and "representing" at everything that moves...
Aren't decent people trying to get in their door with a bag of groceries really the ones "at risk" here? Where's their "program?"
I know, I know...
"That announcement came on the heels of a similar sized grant given to Pennsylvania-based Youth Advocate Programs, Inc. to offer intensive mentoring services for the 250 students deemed most likely to be shot."
Boy, is the world changing. High school yearbooks used to feature "Most Likely To Succeed."
"Most Likely To Be Shot." It's getting to the point that I certainly hope so. Why, a man can't hardly read his newspaper anymore, for all the commotion.
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