Rahm Shuffles Another Deck
First, Rahm out-and-out lied about hiring another 1,000 cops. He disbanded units that were already working the streets and claimed he meant he was "redeploying" another thousand cops, which was another lie.
Now he's raiding the suburbs for jobs that already exist:
Now he's raiding the suburbs for jobs that already exist:
- U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) says Motorola Mobility’s decision to relocate to Chicago from Libertyville is another example of Mayor Rahm Emanuel raiding the suburbs to help city.
As WBBM Newsradio [...] reports, Walsh says it bothers him that Emanuel seems to be taking jobs from suburbs and bringing them to the city.
It should bother a lot of people because Rahm isn't creating jobs. He isn't even fostering an environment where jobs might be created. He's dragging in suburbanites (3/4 of the employees to be moved live outside of Chicago) and hoping they eat lunch downtown, by gas downtown and pay downtown parking rates or use the CTA. Libertyville is more than a little irritated and justifiably so.
Any idea what type of subsidies may have been promised to Motorola for the move?
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posted by SCC at 12:02 AM
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It's like the same propaganda when they say Illinois tourism is back baby. Oh yeaahh. Illinois tourism is back to the per-recession level didn't you know that? Oh yeah!
Then the media goes on to say that a tourist is someone that travels from let's say Chicago to Arlington Park to go the the track, or to Great America, or someone from the burbs that comes into downtown. That's our tourist today.
The media continues with the exact claim that one of the reasons tourism is up is that people are so busted and gas prices are so high that the people are unable to leave the state opting to drive to some out of the way place inside Illinois for a little R&R instead.
Excuse me?
And this is suppose to be good news?
That the per-recession tourist was bringing money into the state from other areas around the country and around the world from outside of Illinois and now the money is moving from one pocket to the other pocket and we're supposed to act like it's back to the good ol' days?
WTF is that?
Like the Groupon's white collar sweat shop that we read about today with the employees seeking a way out I suspect the Motorola mobility people will be right behind them.
Imagine all the workers that are being asked to...no forced to commute maybe 30 miles or more one way because of this move. I mean how in the hell can you sell your home and relocate in this market even if you wanted to right?
They'll call them 3,000 new jobs like you say SCC. But they are not new positions putting 3,000 unemployed workers to work. It's a transfer you got that right.
Does this bullshit surprise anyone? What I would really like to know is how many $Millions Mayor Shylock handed to Motorola from TIF funds to move into Chicago. The TIF is the mayors private piggy bank to reward connected assholes who do his dirty work. When Daley left office there was $800 MILLION plus in accounts for TIF.
Taking from Peter to pay Paul.
why be mad about us getting jobs/companies from the suburbs! The suburbs have been taking jobs from city for 60 yrs,,,,,,don't let your hate bind you
Rahmmie the Commie is at it again. He's trying to pretend that he's a Chicagoan and not a spoiled little shit from the north shore suburbs. Getting Chick-Fil-A all over his face, he has to get his media hacks to push this.
Hey peckerhead, we didn't forget about the rate of murder and assaults on citizens after you told the world that this is a third world city where you can only do business if you are a party member.
Go fuck yourself. We'll remember this when we vote.
I have no love for 9.5, but many tech companies nationally are leaving suburban areas and relocating to central cities.
They find that the young techies they recruit prefer central cities. I mean someone has to live in Wicker Park and Bucktown, no?
Lee Bey wrote about this specifically and generally at his WBEZ blog.
http://www.wbez.org/blogs/lee-bey/2012-07/motorola-joins-corporate-suburb-city-exodus-whither-suburban-office-hq-101230
Big deal. Suburbs have been luring City businesses with lower tax rates, no head tax etc. for years. Thousands of small or light industry and specialty business have bolted to the suburbs around O'Hare. From Chicago.
And those businesses that move here don't always include moving all their employees here. If you lived in Park Ridge or Wilmette would you drop everything, sell your house, take your kid out of New Trier High School or whatever to move into the city so you can send your kid to CPS? I sure don't want my kid going to Taft or Lakeview or any other Chicago public school. Or else you pay many thousands to send your kid to a decent school in the city? No way.
buy gas downtown yeah right
as for parking they do have a train
so that will not work
some might drive but i highly doubt it
for them to move he gave big
they might hire a few but few and far in between
ramhbo must sucked pretty good to get them to move
as in taxbreaks and such
i just want to see how long the love affair lasts
The BIG question that should be asked by our "crack" media is, how many of those 3,000 are US citizens and how many are just foreign workers here on a Visa?
Bringing the foreign workers down to Chicago gives them more access to empty condo buildings that they can easily switch to Apartment buildings.
Just like in Presidential Towers where you have 8 people living in 2 bedroom apartments so they send half the money home. YES - they really add to our economy -- NOT.
The economy in Chicago sucks.
Any idea what type of subsidies may have been promised to Motorola for the move?
A GROUPON entitling the bearer to 50% off at Chick-fil-A?
He'll stand in front of the cameras and tell the unwashed masses that he just created so many new job positions for the city. Never mind that those positions are already filled by people who don't live in the city.
no different than when the burbs took jobs away from the city.... Let's be realistic here.
"Any idea what type of subsidies may have been promised to Motorola for the move?"
Do you think they might have any DoD contracts, FCC, NOAA, etc.?
Who really cares what Libertyville thinks or feels ? These are just a relocating of jobs and company headquarters with hopes that more will follow suit. Some people will complain about anything. For years the companies were moving out of the city to the burbs and no one said a thing. Now when things might reverse, people are offended?
What would possess an employer to move from Libertyville to Shitcago. The employees who remain must be desperate and really pissed. Now if they want to educate their kids, they can set aside 8 to 10% of their income for parochial schools! And hope they are not victims of crime. WTF!
It probably is payback for the contract at the 911 and office of OEMC for the systems that didn't pan out the way the deal was cut and the people who got their free tickets to ball games golf events and the like.
remember that fiasco up in harvard il ? state gave that goof galvin millions in tax breaks to relocate existing jobs. gave employees incentives to relocate in the area then shipped the jobs overseas to stay competitive leaving employees jobless with new mortgages. i remember some in the media questioned the tax perks given motorola but our fearless leaders did nothing to recover the money.
former motorolan
Now maybe we can get a battery that lasts a full tour of duty......
9.5 is going to start a Chicago Income tax on all persons living within the city or working for a company located within the city.
It will be for the children.
The Quality of life for their employees just dropped tremenously
Tiny is living in his own little make believe world. he didn't grow up like most people (talk about the 1%) so he doesn't think like most people. God only knows what he did to become mayor but it's a platform for obama. This whole city makes me sick.
"Rahmmie the Commie is at it again. Getting Chick-Fil-A all over his face, he has to get his media hacks to push this."
--7/28/2012 02:34:00 AM
The "tame reporters" are really standing up and barking to help whitewash Emanuel's colossal blunder. WBBM radio is cooperating -- just heard a story about "Alderman Joe Moreno's stand" on Chick-fil-a. Yesterday, WGN TV had Moreno on there, talking a mile a minute.
Emanuel is suddenly "not in public view" again, let Moreno take the heat and try to double-talk his way around this.
What a little worm.
why be mad about us getting jobs/companies from the suburbs! The suburbs have been taking jobs from city for 60 yrs,,,,,,don't let your hate bind you
7/28/2012 01:54:00 AM
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Mad? Your perception is a little off.
It was a commentary about what Rahm is CLAIMING, as opposed to what is really happening.
No one is 'mad' about the jobs moving in here, but you need to realize this is not the big deal Rahm is making it out to be.
I dont remember the suburbs worrying about Chicago 40 Years ago when they raided Chicago (Sears, the Railroads, Ford,) and took jobs-alls fair buddy.
It's nice to see the jobs fleeing the suburbs instead of another way around. I'm sure Rahm had absolutely nothing to do with this, cities are a better environment for tech companies.
Numerous jobs will be added when Chick Fil-A moves into Chicago. Can't wait to support them!!!
Motorola is moving to the Merchandise Mart which is owned by Vornado Realty Trust which had Chris Kennedy (yes, that Kennedy family) at the head until very recently. Rahm says no TIF funds or special deals were made. And that is possible. But I find it more than suspicious. A firm that considers Libertyville acceptable one day (keep in mind this move inconveniences many current employees) then not just announce a move, but trumpet the move to Chicago as if it were a recently discovered utopia.
A deal has been had, we just don't know what it is.
,,,,don't let your hate bind you
7/28/2012 01:54:00 AM
tell that to the _______________.
This JOE WALSH the same guy who stood up for the GOV of Wisconsin, who made it a goal to remove jobs from Illinois.....it's always a different game when the rabbit gets a gun!!
Hey assholes on the Mayors detail, why do you need to take off every weekend you do nothing but sit in a car, you don't have to get job after job like us, you got that pussy spot and you still take the weekends off. Well your screwing us in the district who might want to take off once in awhile, but can't because you guys put in for a these Fridays and Saturdays off. Thanks, guess it's so stressful there on your laptops all night.
I wonder how many will start working from home now rather then being forced to work in the hell hole of Chicago.
How many manufacturing and tech jobs has the city lost to the I-88 corridor in the past 15 years alone? So sorry, but shit happens, get over it. Would it be nice to create jobs in the city? Of course. Maybe this is just baby steps, but they are steps in the right direction we can only hope.
Look at the big picture. All motorolas taxes will be paid to chicago now. All the employees will pay to park, eat and shop in chicago while at work. Motorola is a worldwide company Chicago has a little more prestige in claiming their headquarters. Chicago is far from and never will be a Detroit. Detroit had one industry, automotive. Chicago has numerous different corporate headquarters and industries. And motorola is just the latest to be added. Rahm sucks. But this is a good move.
Tell Walsh to stop crying. He needs to pay his child support. Don't forget he's the same jagoff talking trash about Tammy Duckworth,a combat veteran;that had her legs blown off in Iraq. he's a jagoff.
Anonymous at 1:54: You don't get out much, do you? And stop listening to WBEZ, the marxist radio station; it spreads disinformation and rots your brain.
What's so bad about this? Ok yeah he's not creating new jobs but atleast its something. I'm not a rahm supporter but who cares if the suburbs lose these companies. A lot of these companies started in Chicago no one cared about the city when they moved out! So sorry libertyville sucks to be you. Besides the FOP can say: Well hello doesn't the city have more tax revenue? Why are you crying about paying overtime? Or hiring more cops? Or funding the pension fund? This isn't a bad thing for us.
COMRADES -- WELCOME TO RAHMANIA -- LAND OF CORPORATE WORK CAMPS AND GUNFIRE.
We are not building high tech centers here. We are building corporate concentration work camps! Talk to the workers at these places, you'll see.
Anyways, well Motorola did get that $100 million dollar tax break from the governor to stay in Illinois so who knows what other incentives they are getting.
Motorola's move is all probably part of some elaborate scheme to frustrate their long term employees into quitting so they can get out of any employee benefit obligations that have built up over the years.
Don't have to pay severance that way or unemployment when they quit on their own. Oh and the health care claims and potential disability claims? Heh forgetaboutit.
The corporation gets to play the victim when these people quit for refusing to relocate too.
Awwwww we are so sorry that you have chosen not to try and sell your home in a shit market and move your kids to a shit city so that they can attend a shit school while dogging the gunfire and the apple pickers on the shit transportation system just to suit OUR needs.
See, out of Motorola's 3,000 employees the company knows damn well that the senior employees will most likely quit and that's fine with them as it allows Motorola to recycle and churn their staff to lower wages and benefits.
This B.S. that they are trying to sell about wanting to see how people use their mobile devices as being the reason for the move to the city is just that...b.s. imo.
Talk about values?
Maybe Rahm and his corporate campaign donators that are robbing society, while using the tax system and "the children" as tools, that love this city of death and mayhem culture so much can sell the naming rights to the city and we can call it "RAHMANIA"
These corporations and the political apparatus that bail them out are hugely responsible for creating this hell hole society here.
The corporate tax money that should of been used for much needed education and much needed city services such as police security and fire protection end up via the corporate tax breaks as campaign donations that are put into people like Rahms pocket. Can you say transfer of wealth?
TOGETHER THEY BOTH GIVE TWO SHITS ABOUT THE NUMBER OF HOMICIDES, THE TEACHERS, THE POLICE FORCE OR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Just keep the circle jerk of campaign donations and corporate tax breaks coming.
Now that Google owns Motorola Mobility, and since Google founders are hardcore lefties (along with that Obuma loving Chairman Eric Schmidt) they probably thought it would be cool to move to the liberal downtown and out of the conservative burbs. Google is probably hoping some of the older employees won't want to move so they can hire younger, hipper (cheaper) kids.
It beats bringing back the Cabrini Green residents. It's a plus for Chicago. More people to pay taxes to fund the Democrat machine.
Wondering how many of those 3,000 will be on Metra ... and how many will be on the Kennedy. Fun, imagining another 1,500 cars a day, isn't it?
Rahm's full of crap, just like the previous jag.
Don't forget that just because a big company "sponsors" something, or agrees/gets strong-armed into paying for something, like more runways at an airport with fewer flights for example, who do you think the cost gets passed on to?
The consumer, i.e. you and I.
Don't let this guy con you. Whether it's directly from your tax dollar or a higher price at the register, on-line, at the ticket counter, etc., you're still paying for it.
"9.5 is going to start a Chicago Income tax on all persons living within the city or working for a company located within the city."
What?? That SOB!! I won't pay it! I'll quit! I'll move! F-Him!
"It will be for the children."
Oh. Never mind then. If it's for the children, then it's GOT to be good.
rb
"Don't forget he's the same jagoff talking trash about Tammy Duckworth,a combat veteran;that had her legs blown off in Iraq."
Yes and a sincere "thanks for your service to Ms. Duckworth. God bless her.
But she's still one of "them", as long as she has that (D) after her name...
Boo hoo.
Twenty years ago Libertyville subsidized Motorola away from the city.
Turn about is fair play and little bitches like Walsh never win.
I wouldn't blame the suburbs for taking businesses with LOWER taxes etc.. after all COOK county CHICAGO even more so are TAXING the people to death... to support all the ILLEGALS that RAHM wants to live within the city..I lived in the city.. moved out cause all that ever happened was my taxes went up to pay for neighbors who couldn't even speak English and to go to schools where they were teaching kids that the USA STOLE the western states from MEXICO.. all these so called techs that like the city .. well as soon as they get married and start having kids guess where they go TO THE SUBURBS..
The Kennedy clan who run the Merchandise Mart Made a deal on the rent - count on it.
Wondering how many of those 3,000 will be on Metra ... and how many will be on the Kennedy. Fun, imagining another 1,500 cars a day, isn't it?
7/28/2012 07:09:00 PM
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Probably a third of them will try to drive in, maybe even carpooling with friends from the old workplace.
Then, after paying for parking and dealing with gridlock for a few weeks, most all of them will become Metra's problem.
NONE of them will buy gas in the city unless the car is on empty, because Chicago's gasoline taxes are SO much higher than what they pay in the suburbs.
What would possess an employer to move from Libertyville to Shitcago. The employees who remain must be desperate and really pissed. Now if they want to educate their kids, they can set aside 8 to 10% of their income for parochial schools! And hope they are not victims of crime. WTF!
7/28/2012 08:46:00 AM
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The location of the employee's WORK PLACE changed. Their RESIDENCES did not.
Their kids will stay in the same schools they went to last year. Their groceries will be purchased at the same suburban Meijer or Jewel or Mariano's. Nothing will change but the length, or method, of their commute.
I hate Rahm, but in this case there is no TIF money and if employees are buying lunch and anything else in Chicago instead of Libertyville, that is good. And who cares about Libertyville anyway.
Anonymous said...
Anonymous at 1:54: You don't get out much, do you? And stop listening to WBEZ, the marxist radio station; it spreads disinformation and rots your brain.
7/28/2012 04:29:00 PM
Actually I was out last night giving dollar bills to your sister at The Admiral on Lawrence. She dances nicsh
Here's Crain's Chicago business saying essentially the same thing WBEZ said.
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20120728/ISSUE01/307289976/tracking-motorola-mobilitys-commute-into-the-city
I guess that's a commie site too.
Hey thanks Rahm for bringing in 3,000 more suburbanites to Shitcago. We need the robbery victims!
Heard the whole Walsh interview on WBBM this morning. Very interesting.
This Duckworth is not magically immune from criticism. Walsh described how the Emanuel/Axelrod/Durbin team selected her for the position, pushed other candidates aside, and just about created a district for her.
Does this surprise anyone who knows anything about how dis city woiks? They pick out who they want and screw them in like light bulbs.
Walsh is also right about this Motorola scam. Emanuel used the many contacts in his Rolodex to move a few deck chairs around on the Titanic and create a momentary appearance of wonderfulness.
Now the Mayor is again "not in public view" while the reaction to this BS rolls forth -- and as Ald. Joe Moreno stands up to take the heat for Emanuel's idiotic attack on a chicken restaurant.
Emanuel is already raising campaign funds even though he doesn't come up for re-election until 2015.
What a little worm.
"Now that Google owns Motorola Mobility...Google is probably hoping some of the older employees won't want to move so they can hire younger, hipper (cheaper) kids."
--7/28/2012 07:08:00 PM
No walls in the place, everyone sits on bouncy-beanbags instead of chairs, and every day is Bring Your Dog To Work Day.
>yawn<
I'm thinking of the 1905 film of the men at Westinghouse forging some huge, white-hot generator shaft, using twenty-foot-long steel hooks to haul it back into place, to move it along between blows from the enormous steam hammer. Deafening noise, showers of blazing sparks. Like ants laboring in Hell itself.
This was "work."
Within living memory...
...at least in America. This sort of heavy equipment is hardly "obsolete;" it's just being made in other countries now.
One of the most important buildings in Shanghai, China was the "translation building," built in the late 19th Century. They rendered all available Western technical literature into Chinese, developing new ideograms for technical words that were not in their language.
Ah, Google...as they expand like a horrible octopus, they mouth "don't be evil." I've noticed that the mentation of their search engine has shifted to an increasingly lower common denominator, the paradigm being that the user can't spell and isn't really sure of what he's looking for -- but it must, must be some plastic thing that he can order online from an affiliate...
"I dont remember the suburbs worrying about Chicago 40 Years ago when they raided Chicago (Sears, the Railroads, Ford,) and took jobs-alls fair buddy."
--7/28/2012 12:05:00 PM
What is this "raided" stuff? The Daleys hated industry, hated railroads, and did everything they could to drive them out of the city. That "employee head tax" they put in place really accelerated things.
Rahmbo said this a couple of weeks ago. "We gotta fight for every job...". He's not creating any, he's stealing them from elsewhere, all on the backs of taxpayers.
There hasn't been a Democrat in 30 years who created a job that added value to the economy.
",,,,don't let your hate bind you"
--7/28/2012 01:54:00 AM
* * * STUPID STATEMENT OF THE MONTH * * *
"tell that to the _______________."
--7/28/2012 12:54:00 PM
Yeah, fucking A. Go tell 'em.
"Hate?" Oh, man. Go run that on whatever animal threw the kindly old lady down a flight of concrete "L" stairs -- was it at Fullerton? -- and killed her while escaping with someone's snatched Iphone.
...and the Mayor is sweating over a chicken restaurant.
At least he was a minute ago, when you could see him.
New bullshit put-up controversy, new "strategy" to come Monday morning.
Meanwhile, the money continues to be raked in. Watching "The City That Works" is like watching the croupier at Monte Carlo, except that the house wins every single spin.
"Oh! La la.
"So sorry, Monsieur."
Like hell.
"The Admiral on Lawrence..."
--7/29/2012 08:34:00 AM
Man, I don't get out that way much. Is that joint STILL there? I thought the Venereal Disease Squad must have shut it down a long time ago.
Probably they have some of the same gals who started there, what, 1943?
Even worse, the same seats...
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And they are claiming new jobs, but they laid off 800 or so after their merger deal with Google. They lay off 800 and hire a few hundred and call it job growth; but that’s typical of the lying politicians. I can't wait for people to wake up and revolt against the politicians. The animals on the street are killing each other over bullshit, but can you imagine if they realized what these politicians are doing to us all? The politicians need to learn their position is to serve the people not themselves; they obviously need to learn fear to get that message across since nothing else seems to work. That day will surely come when people wake up, especially when the people who the politicians have caused to lose their homes, families, pride and hope get fed up enough. New jobs and job growth; it’s political bullshit and typical smoke and mirror lies.
Motorola is a worldwide company Chicago has a little more prestige in claiming their headquarters. What the Fuck are you smoking??
Anonymous said...
The Kennedy clan who run the Merchandise Mart Made a deal on the rent - count on it.
7/28/2012 11:30:00 PM
The Kennedy Clan sold the Merchandise Mart in 1998 to Vornado Realty Trust. - count on it.
MMMM Nice 3000 more moving targets. Please get more here, we need to pick them off on their way to the train. We know that they are not also moving here.
Here is the irony. Google is suppose to be cutting edge technology, 4G, 5G who knows.
The office is suppose to be obsolete, one can work from wherever one can get an internet connection.
Why is Google resorting to the old system of warehousing drone workers?
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