Media Chugs More Rahm Kool-Aid
If you had a slam dunk case, if you were 100% in the right, if you had the backing of the law beyond even a shadow of a doubt, would you sit around and make noise about it or would you be in front of a judge to get your position enforced as soon as humanly possible?
And if you were among the more powerful politicians in the region, wouldn't you find yourself a tame judge, probably a judge you slated for election, and make sure that they ruled your way? After all, this is Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, right?
And if you were among the more powerful politicians in the region, wouldn't you find yourself a tame judge, probably a judge you slated for election, and make sure that they ruled your way? After all, this is Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, right?
- There is a new state law in place that Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says bans teachers from striking for anything other than compensation. Emanuel says the two issues remaining on the table have nothing to do with that, raising the question: is this a legal strike?
Mayor Emanuel has repeatedly made the statement that the teachers union is conducting a strike of choice, and that teachers are striking over two items that are not subject to a job action under current Illinois law.
Emanuel says the law states teachers may strike only because of compensation, and according to the mayor, neither of the disputed contract items involve pay or benefits.
Rahm throws this bullshit out there and Chuck Goudie is in line to guzzle it up and attempt to de-legitimize the Teachers' Strike. Here's where you know that Rahm is completely full of crap:
- Monday, the I-Team asked Mayor Emanuel whether he would order city attorneys to court, challenge the strike as illegal and ask that teachers be ordered back to work. A spokesperson for the mayor late Monday afternoon said, his "first priority -- as it has been all along -- is to have the negotiating team meeting with the union rather than meeting with a judge."
Teachers union attorney Robert Bloch says some issues that are subject to collective bargaining are not shrinkable, but he reiterates teachers are currently within the law in what they are striking for.
Mayor Emanuel continues to disagree. However, he seems intent on working this out at the table, not in the courtroom.
He disagrees out loud, but his actions belie someone who knows exactly what the law says and knows he hasn't got anything close to a valid standing in the courts.
Just because Rahm keeps saying it doesn't make it true, but Channel 7, along with the Sun Times, are publishing so much slanted crap already this week, it's sickening.
Just because Rahm keeps saying it doesn't make it true, but Channel 7, along with the Sun Times, are publishing so much slanted crap already this week, it's sickening.
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I like how about a week ago Karen Lewis told the press that Rahm was a liar.
When a reporter asked the mayor if he lied his respose was
"This isn't about me & Ms. Lewis" Man the P.O.S. can't even answer the question because he knows that he is nothing but a "LYING P.O.S."
He has been lying to the people of chicago since the day that he announced that he was running for mayor.
I bet the B.S. that Rahm spews isn't the only thing of Rahm's that Chuck Goudie chugs
"Media Chugs More Rahm Kool-Aid"
I don't think it's Rahm's Kool-Aid that Goudie's chugging...
Now, I understand some of questions thrown at the CTU president Sunday night during her live press conference. The media trying to goad her into giving a reason for the strike that is not allowed.
Rahm,
You reneged on the 4% raise the CTU employees had won. You broke a contract that literally took money out of people's pockets and food off their tables. You fucked with people's families. That was your first big mistake.
You motherfucked Karen Lewis when it wasn't necessary. This was your second big mistake. Her referring to you as a "bully" is the perfect descriptor.
You tried to circumvent the system by spearheading the movement to introduce a law requiring a 75% authorization to call a strike. The CTU responded in force, shoving it right up your ass. Strike three.
Now you're mounting another feeble attempt to get your way? Fuck off already. You made your bed, now it's time to sleep in it. Time to pay the piper, Ballerino. Your bluff is played out.
Without detailing every pet project you've announced since winning an election you should've never been allowed by law to run, it's obvious there's more than enough money in the city's coffers. You know, to meet obligations mandated by law and agreed upon and arbitrated into contracts. Those pesky little things like funding various pensions and wage increases won through collective bargaining agreements.
Your novelty is quickly wearing thin, Tiny Dancer. There's a lot of Sheeple that voted for you that are kicking themselves in the ass now that your true colors are on display. And while they can't take back their vote, they can chant, protest, ridicule, strike and help educate a naive public on just what a jagoff Rahm Emanuel is.
They've got your number - they know it's absolutely killing you to be in the national spotlight outed as the miserable failure that we civil servants know you are. To many people, seeing you slowly crucified in the hot seat is worth more than any 4% raise. And giving statements surrounded by Hispanic kids (I'm sure Alderwhore Brookins appreciated that) while mispronouncing the names of a couple of schools just reaffirms how out of touch with reality you truly are.
I toast what I hope is just the start of a long and painful political demise for Rahm Emanuel. Thank you, CTU, for knocking the tyrant down a few pegs.
I was watching the fox "news" @ 9just to see what they were saying about the strike and saw something that the clueless media whores obviously missed. It was a taped segment (so they could have cut it if they wanted to) and they were interviewing a family at their house. There were kids sitting on the porch behind the parent and a kid of probably 12 years old flashed a quick gang sign. But everything is the teachers fault.... rrriight...
The larger problem is that the little North Shore Shit-Ass, for reasons known only to him, Almighty God and Lucifer who was cast from Heaven and damned to be Satan; fancies himself to be THE smartest motherfucker to ever shit between two shoes...
We laugh because it looks like the North Shore Shit-Ass has finally outsmarted himself as one of the elder subject matter experts emeriti predicted.
(Good call Boss... Sooner than expected though!)
To hint or better still say out loud that Rahm Emanuel is a very deeply disturbed individual is a universally understood understatement.
Heh... We'll have to dig deep and find our doubly dog-eared copy of Dr. Hervey Cleckley's "Mask of Sanity" (fairly dry reading but entertaining as hell to us Police-y type people) so that we can dope the windage, elevation etc. so as to fire for effect as to what truly ails this deeply afflicted half a man who revels in paining others with his peculiar gift of affliction and misery.
Our jaundiced eye measure of this little Boris Karloff/Creature Feature looking muthafuckah?
Classic case of little ignored man grows up to power. "I'll make them pay for what they did to me when I grow up"
Strong animus/hatred is a prime mover/motivator.
Socially inept in youth and young adulthood.
Frustration/fear/anger/anxiety issues regarding intimacy and familial relations.
Frightfully insecure/control freak who has risen to power.
Will do what he deems necessary to hold on to that power.
Inability to delegate/trust his subordinates. Picks those subordinates according to the Peter Principle.
He picks subordinates he has pre-destined to fail according to his purpose because HE is the only one worthy of staying in place.
And that's just looking at him through the filter of having a hard walk in life and working many years on a shit doo-doo job that everybody and their uncle's daddy rotates their funky dentures that they can do better for double the hours, half the pay and twice the sheer joy of being intentionally walked backwards to the 19th Century for politics and pure spite...
You joyfully hating shit-talkers are so full, if you bite your tongues you'll die of a ghastly infection.
All the lime Kool-Aid made with Rahm piss you whores guzzle, won't help...
May the teachers knock the top two layers of skin off his narrow ass for picking a very unnecessary fight... Couldn't happen to a nicer guy...
Shit-Talking while alley-fighting means somebody gets caught with their mouth open and has their jaw busted into bone meal.
Karen Lewis caught Rahm like a muthafuckin' boss...
Typical shit-ass... Rahm tried to get others to pin the teachers arms behind their backs so they couldn't fight him back.
Slightly O/T...
Scum-Times has an article regarding a problem with the roll out in early 2013 with the school zone speed cameras.
A quirk in the law dictates that a child must be present before enforcement action can be taken.
...Of course that's what the school zone signage says... "When Children Are Present."
It look like Rahm's big grab into the taxpayers sore pockets will net him a hand full of hot greasy shit.
*Jackpot! I gotcho pockets bitch! >GRAB!< GAAAAHHHH! This ain't money! >sniff!< IT'S SHIIIIIT!*
The city is telling potential bidders to "do the best they can" to come up with technology to take a photograph that would record a vehicle and a pedestrian clearly identifiable as a child within such proximity as to constitute a clear violation.
"Uhh... we might need human review... Uhh... It's a big problem..." Uhh... WTF?
Heh... Rahm, the smartest motherfucker to shit between two shoes, continues to outsmart himself...
This shit is gettin' fun!
Look out disable cops they are coming after you and that comes from the FOP president.
It is time for a recall of Rahm.
He is no good, never was good for Chicago.
Just like Karen Lewis said the mayor is a liar and a bully.
If he thinks negotiations are achieving something, the last thing he'd want to do now is shut them down with an in-their-face legal tactic.
Plus, why wouldn't the teachers just change their minds about the "agreement" on compensation? As soon as they do that - as soon as they say they want more money - well, it's once again a legal strike.
But Rahmula doesn't mention which drawer he hid his puppet Brizard does he? CEO???? Yo bet.
BLAME RAHM's EGO This is Why There's a Strike
Rahmbooooooooooooooooo!
CPS contract translated to CPD terms
1. Your performance evaluation will be tied to your raise and will be conducted by your Commander and will be based on large part on crime stats on your beat.
2. If they close your district you will be laid off unless another Coomander specifically requests you be assigned to a vacancy in his District. The Department can continue to hire PPO's after you're laid off
If that sounds wrong to you then support the teachers.
More people are against the teachers than with them and it has nothing to do with the mayor. The demand for control of teacher evaluations is because too many teachers are unqualified and can not pass skills tests because unqualified teachers taught them. They can break the cycle by taking classes to improve their skills but they are too lazy.
Rahman needs to fire those horrible teachers and start fresh with teachers who care about thebkids. When the teachers are the highest paid in the country at $76k plus benefits for 9 months of work he 80% of 8th graders can't read, we have a problem. Chicago is bankrupt and the CTU is a big part of the problem. If the teachers don't like it, they are free to look for work elsewhere.
Chuck Goudie, jay levine are both the biggest schmucks in what Chicago calls media. I(insignificant) team what a joke! Both have become lap dogs for rahm. Stopped watching 7 and 2 years ago, because they both seem to be mouthpieces for the chicago machine, no real investigations in how tif monies are handled, why pensions are underfunded, why there is 146 million dollars allocated for new park/bicycle road markings, both of which dont contribute a dime in tax revenue, why we pay 1600 a year for water etc. No chuckie decides he wants to be rahms butt boy. Chuck , grow a pair! When you get up in the morning and look in the mirror, all you see is contempt for the taxpayers of this city?Chicago is sinking and its not the the taxpayers,city workers or the teachers, who are bringing it to its knees, ITS CITY HALL.
Teachers union attorney Robert Bloch says some issues that are subject to collective bargaining are not shrinkable...
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I wonder if he meant strikable. Reporter probably went to a public school and thus never learned to spell.
mhar is a evil little bastard who lies so often he wouldn't know the truth if it bit him on his butt !!!
This strike is rediculous, we can't afford to pay more property tax for them. They are screwing our Kids around and inconveniencing Parents. And nice job on locking up the Loop yesterday.
I give them a thumbs down. I support Union labor but not their tactics. Karen Lewis better be careful the Mayor can't afford to come up with the wrong end of the stick.
Exactly what you would expect from a Fascist government.
Why doesnt the media ask tiny dancer why the aussie company that got the contracts for the speed cams, just happens to employ his longtime friend and political ally as a consultant? It must just be a coincidence....
Gestapo Ballerino.
He's going with the old Nazi philosophy of telling the lie loudly and often enough that the people eventually think it must be true.
He is truly an evil piece of filthy vermin. I wonder how our contract talks are going?
Look at this krap.
"With $114 million, Obama just out raises Romney in August"
What are we going to do with that $114 million? They are going to buy advertising that will tell you the GOP are idiots like the GOP will use their money to tell you that the liberal democrats are idiots.
The spent money will be counted as growth in the nations GDP which implies that... hey things are growing so we all must be better off and that there is opportunity in everyone's future. What a waste!!
Seriously.
Instead of corporations putting people to work with that money so that they can build something useful the so-called savings by cutting jobs is instead donated to buy media time. Media time to produce propaganda.
NOPE. We don't want that money going towards jobs, or education or healthcare or any other thing that is useful and that would make us a better place with a higher standard of living.
Oh-NO! use it to spread lies and half-truths and to inflate politicians and corporate CEO's ego's.
More clout!!
That's what this nation needs. Clout that debases education, experience, hard work and all those altruistic values that are preached about. It's who you know and kiss up too that get's you ahead.
"Look at me mommy look at me I'm speaking at the DNC"....it makes me sick
"Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney hit Lake Forest to raise $4 million for his campaign Monday night, capping a day in which he... "
There goes $4 million dollars out of the Illinois economy. We lose the tax revenue when it's taken out of the state and how many jobs might instead have been created! What do we get in return? Talk about creating jobs and growing the economy not actually doing it. Talk.
rahm had a choice when he took office and it was to try and break the ctu--- he failed because the teachers stood together and fought back--- his whopper size ego can't handle the truth because he always got what he wanted and doesn't understand the word "no"....
Amazing news conference yesterday. Mostly 9.5 blabbering, and the media lapping it up. Hardly any questions. Then an abrupt end with 9.5 pretending to care about the poor media prop kids.
Also heard the media mention several times this a.m. that 9.5 and McFake were at the Memorial last night. Made extra sure to mention 9.5 was there. Bigger story would have been why Shortshanks NEVER went to anything police-related.
And call me jaded, but I'm thinking 9.5 went just so down the road during contract negotiations he can point to this and say, "See, I CARE about our police." And that he respects our profession, blah, blah, blah.
I don't think Karen Lewis is scared of 9.5 at all, and 9.5 had no idea how powerful 'an angry black woman' could be.
This isn't D.C. 9.5 is out of his element.
Lewis could squash him like a bug.
Rahm got a Phd from Bagdad Bob University. Good to see he's putting it to use. That's an education not wasted.
Rahms team walked away from negotiations and that is the only thing Rahm had to try and make Karen lewis and the teachers look bad. Karen Lewis stated in her press conference that there were multiple issues and that 2 of them were not cause for a work stoppage when asked by reporters.
I stopped watching network news a long time ago. F that propaganda andand F their advertisers
Casual Observation: While walking past 3 different schools with striking teachers out front, MANY/LOTS cars honked at them. While I'm not excited about property taxes going up, it is clear that the 1% needs to be held at bay. As unions have lost jobs to other countries, we have all lost our status, benefits and power in the work place
No sympathy here for the striking teachers.
Heard a teacher interviewed on WBBM780 today saying that it is their right to get a raise. WTF?
This "sense of entitlement" has engulfed everyone in Chicago.
There ain't no right for you to get a raise. Get over it.
Better start reading about the economy around you and when teachers are making 80% more than the average person living in Chicago, they have NO RIGHT to complain about what they make. Plus - NO private sector employee gets any type of pension that even comes close to a teacher's pension.
You can also see a lot of mis-information out there as far as numbers not adding up to a 16% raise across 4 years. Don't just look at pay - look at benefits.
Chicago teachers only pay 3% of their healthcare costs. What's the bitch? You got it made.
These are way different times and no one should be bitching about pay and benefits because the teachers are already getting platinum benefits and they are one of the highest - if not the highest - paid in the country.
Parents in Chicago want better education - but they don't want to pay higher property taxes (one lady called in on WLS Monday PM). Well too F'ing bad. Do you think the state has to pay for this bureaucratic wasteland? She wants quality education for her kids- but doesn't want to pay 10% more in property taxes.
Those of you (CPD) crying for lifting residency, you might be surprised at what you would pay in suburban property taxes. They are a lot higher - but the schools (compared to Chicago) are better. What you pay in private tuition would go away - BUT, you would be paying for higher property taxes. Maybe that's a good tradeoff for you.
CPS should be totally dismantled - from its do-nothing bureaucratic administration to its deadwood teaching staff. Anyone arguing that this is wrong is clueless to the facts.
What is the CPS's HS graduation rate? 50% What is the freshman drop-out rate? 39%
Not real stellar numbers for those being paid real stellar rates of pay.
And while we're at it, dismantle CPD's administration as well. Too many clout-heavy, light-experienced people who are not leaders or not even good followers.
Chicago has problems - but throwing money at them is the WRONG solution.
It's because they're full of shit. The teachers know how to play this, they refuse to finalize anything on compensation until the other issues are done so that they can strike over compensation.
this media bias is out of control- I say war with the media NOW- they want to back this satan of a mayor- then I say bring it on media! Flanery the clown that lives on longwood drive in that big house saying the teachers have "no skin in the game" backing this satan of a mayor- cant wait to say hi to Mr Flanery next time I see him at Jewel- GUYS THIS SATAN/MAYOR IS GOING TO TRY AND BREAK THE TEACHERS UNION THRU THE MEDIA AND IF HE DOES HE WILL BE COMING AFTER US NEXT! FOP WAKE THE FUCK UP
All lies. The $76,000 salaries they claim the teachers are getting? Absolute lies. They had to average in the top paid, over forty years service and about to retire teachers to get that one. Average salary starts in the low forties and stays under sixty for the first ten years.
Would you work for that pay with take home work after being trapped with a pack of gang thugs all day?
Hey BTW Remember when the state told the public that the Lottery Money would insure there would not be anymore teacher strikes.....Anybody remember those words ?
Anybody hear the total BULSHIT radio ads on BBM from some make believe Education organazation thats a front for city hall all about what the local papers are saying about the teacher strike ? What a total slap in the face to anybody with a brain, and of course it's all Pro Rahm. BBM should ashamed for even taking the money for that ad, as a news organazation they know it's BULLSHIT and if it's a Political Ad it should be represented as such. What a slimly little prick this Mayor really is
If Daley sold businesses city buildings for one dollar and gave the money that was supposed to go to our pension to connected businesses, why not have Rahm hit them up for funds to make that up? He's supposed to be a master at raising money. He certainly seems to find millions when he needs to.
All of the B.S. with the teachers is petty. Come November they will be in lockstep behind their union officals to vote for the democrats. The same elected officals that despise them, until an election come along.
rahm doesn't want it to get out that his operatives re-wrote the law to keep teachers from striking over anything BUT money...thereby making him look bad. of course he doesn't want it going to the courts.
Rahm loves it.
Each day that the strike continues Rahm's 3 kids at that private school where he pays around $75,000 per year in tuition to send them broadens the education gap with all the CPS competition.
Why in the world would Rahm want to debase Rahm's private school for his kids by doing all you can to make CPS better?
That would be like throwing $25K/kid out the window.
Eff CPS, right Rahm?
For this point forward, lets refer to Goudie as "DipShit Chuck" whenever we refer to him
Civilian here.
Re: A quirk in the law dictates that a child must be present before enforcement action can be taken.
Betcha that law is changed mighty quick!
Anonymous said...
"Media Chugs More Rahm Kool-Aid"
I don't think it's Rahm's Kool-Aid that Goudie's chugging...
9/11/2012 12:26:00 AM
Do you think it is secret sauce?
Are they Chicago Public Schools or interment gulag work camps to hold illegal immigrants in -- as the politicians wave them across the border in the hopes of increasing the states population to justify an additional seat in the House of Representatives -- to win more share of federal tax money that is based upon local population?
Little Chicago Pre-prisons. Little segregated communities of street gangs that must be kept apart.
How can you learn anything in this culture of fear, not knowing which direction the gun fire is going to come from next? And the goal is to blame the teachers when the kids come to work hungry, scared, and can't learn, skip class to join the homies.
Doesn't make sense to me.
Rahm's re-election campaign theme
"Snitches Get Stitches"
Snitches get stitches you son of a bitches / close those mental health centers but don't tax the rich's / No teachers or coppers with union contracts / The DNC's calling and I must call them back / ...
Top Ten Reason Not To Move to Chicago.
1. Taxes too high
2. Crime rate too high
3. Hospital ER's on bypass with gang related crime victims most of the time
4. Schools overcrowded and substandard
5. Parking too high and City Towing outfit is corrupt.
6. Gasoline prices highest in the nation.
7. No living wage job opportunities
8. Can only speak English
9. Weather sucks
10. Toxic beaches
on line scum-times story that did not last long about a mom that declared she cant go to work unless offspring is in school.
media trying to play the public? nah!
wonder if moms offspring completed his essay on what i did last summer.
Rahm wants a long strike so he can shorten the school year to save money and blame it on the teachers.
What are they doing to go after the disabled officers that they already aren't doing?
Rahm Emanuel = 50 Shades of Bullshit.
Recall Shields!
How does 3%,+2%+2%,+2% = 16%? Only in the CPS book of numbers! Pay no attention to facts or the laws of mathmatics.
Hahahah..
WGN had the mayor speaking about the status of the teachers negotiations. @ 12:50 PM magically the speech was pulled from TV and radio that was using the feed. So what did they edit out that WGN didn't want people to hear?
Anonymous said...
But Rahmula doesn't mention which drawer he hid his puppet Brizard does he? CEO???? Yo bet.
9/11/2012 04:54:00 AM
Your post made me think of a new name for 9.5:
RAHMUELLA
It has so much nuance to it!
"A strike of choice." Guess what, asshat? ALL strikes are choices.
Rhambo piss must taste good these guys just keep chugging it up.
Listening to 105.9 on the way into work today.
Already airing are the commercials lambasting the teachers for exercising their right to strike - the right Rahm Emanuel did everything in his power to circumvent. I guess when that didn't work he moves to his Plan "B". And "C", and ....
The spokespersons quote Tribune and Sun-Times articles, all of which are designed to paint the teachers in a negative light.
Rahm Emanuel is a fucking disgusting piece of shit. And so is whoever put together and allowed these ads to be run. I hope the CTU gives no quarter to this rotten cocksucker and holds out until every last one of their demands are met.
Just remember, the mainstream media is part of the democratic party, so they will not harm a democrat or socialist.
The sooner people realize the media has abdicated its responsibility of being watchdogs, the sooner we can right this ship.
Well I've been reading you coppers for a couple months now and from what I'm hearing, the teachers deserve combat pay for working at CPS.
everyone knows the public schools have become day cares for illegals immigrants and welfare rats kids.
A real man never MF's a woman
time for these women to vote republican and be treated like a lady , not a baby mama , 2 am booty call , wake up ladies
bj's in white house with the 1st black president in the 90's.
My wife, who is a teacher sent me this link. I never fully understood the teacher strike until I read this:
http://chicagoteacher1.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/a-union-workers-take-sticking-points-and-the-flawed-system/
rahm looks like something from the lord of the rings.
probably wouldnt need so many teachers if you deported half the illegals.
the two of them are a pair. to trust them is your first mistake. the teachers are going to lose because the media is on his side. rahm may win the battle, but he will lose the war. they and other voters will remember in november. he wont have that smug attitude on his face. he is like obama they send their children to private schools.
The media is sickening with their spin.
We keep hearing the 16% wage increase numbers thrown out to present an image that the CTU is getting a 16% increase in take home pay.
Beware CPD. Should they play that same game on you, counting their pension contributions as your wage increase...well we all know how that will work when they fail to deposit the pension money as promised.
Then the talk about air conditioning in the classrooms. The media is presenting the teachers as prima-Donna's "well when I went to school we did not have air condition" as the media drops off the part that the teachers were talking about in the middle of summer school!! How many of these media jerks went to school in the summer? It's an insult to everyone's intelligence. The "strike of choice" label and everything buy two things are settled OH-no only six out of 49 are..
LIARS.
Can't trust or believe anything unless you're getting it first hand.
rahm want to destroy america this is just part of the plan new world order.communist little rat.
How does 3%,+2%+2%,+2% = 16%? Only in the CPS book of numbers! Pay no attention to facts or the laws of mathmatics.
9/11/2012 12:46:00 PM
The rest is the give-back on the teachers' pension contribution, which will go up.
Anonymous said...
Rahm wants a long strike so he can shorten the school year to save money and blame it on the teachers.
9/11/2012 12:19:00 PM
Think before you type.
State law requires a minimum number of school days for each student. He can't just 'shorten the school year'.
Rahm doesn't want the embarrassment of a strike, under any circumstances. He may be smiling for the cameras, but he's got to be ready to explode. Nothing about this strike is beneficial to him. Nothing.
It was observed by a political commentator last night that he is not participating in the talks because he is such a polarizing personality, he might, in fact, lengthen the strike.
just like he put 1000 officers on the streets were they were already Patrolling in those high crime areas under a different name. rahm lies cause its free to. it for the children but not his.
Both parties spend a billion dollars of tax payer money on conventions and now they want to cut the throats of the union worker gfy media
No fan of Rahm here. Teachers have a good deal and should be grateful. I wouldn't choose to work on the south or west side, so I don't. Don't like it? Quit. Someone else will take the job. It's when nobody is willing to teach in the ghetto that things will really change. Throwing more money at these teachers, many of whom have no business being on the job, achieves nothing.
Chicago has problems - but throwing money at them is the WRONG solution.
9/11/2012 09:22:00 AM
so, quit your job working for rahmbutt.
that ought to save the real taxpayers over $100k right there.
This strike is rediculous, we can't afford to pay more property tax for them. They are screwing our Kids around and inconveniencing Parents. And nice job on locking up the Loop yesterday.
I give them a thumbs down. I support Union labor but not their tactics. Karen Lewis better be careful the Mayor can't afford to come up with the wrong end of the stick.
9/11/2012 07:05:00 AM
before you can safely give that thumbs down, you'd be well advised to remove your thumb from your ass.
it's backing up you brain gases.
Rahman needs to fire those horrible teachers and start fresh with teachers who care about thebkids. When the teachers are the highest paid in the country at $76k plus benefits for 9 months of work he 80% of 8th graders can't read, we have a problem. Chicago is bankrupt and the CTU is a big part of the problem. If the teachers don't like it, they are free to look for work elsewhere.
9/11/2012 06:37:00 AM
looking for work?
More people are against the teachers than with them and it has nothing to do with the mayor. The demand for control of teacher evaluations is because too many teachers are unqualified and can not pass skills tests because unqualified teachers taught them. They can break the cycle by taking classes to improve their skills but they are too lazy.
9/11/2012 05:39:00 AM
it must suck to be you.
does he work for chicago or the president take a leave of absence.your not above the citizen your little rat.
if crime is out of control why are sendind police to other states? time denied...
I don't understand why none of the other unions like electricans,plumbers,pipefitters,carpenters,engineers to name a few are not being vocal in their support of the teachers in their quest for a decent wage.Oh thats a stupid question all the union leadeship is comprimised by the democrats.
Anonymous said...
All of the B.S. with the teachers is petty. Come November they will be in lockstep behind their union officals to vote for the democrats. The same elected officals that despise them, until an election come along.
9/11/2012 10:38:00 AM
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Maybe not. The times are a changing..
National Police Union Turns Down Romney and Obama
Mitt Romney has been turned away by a large union whose endorsement he hoped to win.
The 330,000-member Fraternal Order of Police, the country’s largest police union, announced that it would back no candidate for president this year, the first time the group had passed on an endorsement in its 98-year history. The union backed the Republican nominees in 2000, 2004 and 2008, and backed President Bill Clinton in 1996.
more >> http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/09/07/national-police-union-turns-down-romney/
All the candidates are full of **it and anti-union.
Guess how many nation unions were represented downtown today? Chicago janitors union 1,800 strong walk in two days in solidarity.
I notcied a lot of the teacher-bashers can't spell. Are those Rahm's trolls trying to disguise themselves?
Parents in Chicago want better education - but they don't want to pay higher property taxes (one lady called in on WLS Monday PM). Well too F'ing bad. Do you think the state has to pay for this bureaucratic wasteland? She wants quality education for her kids- but doesn't want to pay 10% more in property taxes.
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Why does teachers pay have to automatically equal higher taxes?
Look the city has money for a $55 million dollar Maggie Daley park. They have all kinds of money to give away tax incentives to corporations. The city has money to burn on $140,000 per mile bike lanes. Pretty small minded to think that we can't do more for schools without raising property taxes.
What happened to all that lottery money that was suppose to go to the schools? where is that? same place as the CPD pension contributions I suppose!
Fifty years from now when they kick you out the door for retirement and you have to depend on the kids that are in school right now to earn enough money to pay the taxes to support your standard of living you will wish these kids had free education the best available.
But oh-no not you right. You worked and earned and are not dependent on anyone. HA...good luck with that plan. These kids will still have to earn the disposable income to invest in your retirement plan investments and bid up the stock prices.
But hell naw...Englewood and the west side isn't bad enough. The hell with them all and let the city rot and the future generation rot with it.
You may not like to admit it. But the torch will be passed to their hands like our parents and grandparents pass it onto us. We should be demanding the best education we can afford for all who knows what innovations and advances may be discovered as a result. What's the alternative to be status quo. Turn the teaching profession into just another min-wage job with no benefits?
These teachers are entitled to a raise because they negotiated a raise in good faith with their last contract and Rahm rescinded it and that is plain wrong.
Seen more than one of these Rahm Emanual Fascist Tee Shirts today
On the back side it has the spiel about building that youth based civilian defense core. Whatever happened to that?
Just an observation, my wife is a school teacher with over 25 yrs teaching special education and has a masters degree.
What the schools and Rahm want to do is strip seniority.
If my wife's school is closed or they do away with special ed classes in her building, she is laid off. With 25+ yrs and a master degree she has no gaurantee of being placed in another school with a vacancy of the same position. It's up to the principal at that building to see if he wants to hire her. It has nothing to do with bad ratings being the reason my wife won't be hired, it has to do with that school principal having a budget and it is cheaper for him to hire a new teacher right out of college with a bachelor degree to fill the vacancy. Seniority be damned. You're out of a job!
You lose your spot at one school because of factors you have no control over, you're out of a job, no more going to a different school.
I always thought the main job of a union was to preserve seniority rights. That's what the teacher's union is trying to do, preserve seniority rights. Rahm is against this. If he can open the door and slowly strip seniority rights away from the teachers, he'll do it to the rest of the unions. He will chip away at police and fire seniority rights and when it goes to an arbitrator, his argument will be that precedence was set with the teachers. With our track record with arbitrators, we're screwed.
I don't know where to begin speculating how Rahm would mess with our seniority, but if he gets his foot in the door, he will take his other foot and shove it up our ass!
Also, my wife was at the rally downtown today, on the stage with Karen Lewis was the head of the fireman's unions who spoke and came out in support of the teachers union. Noticeably absent was anyone from the police union supporting the teachers.
Blow up Rat when he annouced he was a candidate. Now a 2 legged one
probably wouldnt need so many teachers if you deported half the illegals
AMEN THE NEW DEMOCRATS! Catholic here and my own church supports them and helps them So i stopped giving on Sunday. My 3 kids are getting screwed
The Flaming Tutu shouldn't even be mayor! He was not a resident of this Shitty for the appropriate amount prior to running for the post!!
Anonymous said...
If Daley sold businesses city buildings for one dollar and gave the money that was supposed to go to our pension to connected businesses, why not have Rahm hit them up for funds to make that up? He's supposed to be a master at raising money. He certainly seems to find millions when he needs to.
9/11/2012 09:44:00 AM
The old 023rd District property was originally listed for several millions of dollars. Then Alderman Tom "Ann Sathers" Tunney stepped in and had it sold to a developer pal for $1 so that an old people's home for aged gay people could take it's place. True story.
Can't wait for his next press conference,
Any person under 20 that gets shot , robbed, battered, etc . Its the CTU's fault because if the greedy teachers stayed in schools these yutes would be safe. The media and the sheep would eat that up.
Rahm can take that half finger he keeps pointing at everyone trying to be intimidating and stick it up chuck goudie's ass.....he's about as much of an investigative reporter as i am....Why doesn't he report after the 2% raise he wants to raise the medical almost 3 %????
9/11/2012 03:39:00 PM...
"A real man never MF's a woman"
DING - DING - DING!
Those Chicago Values Rahm loves to rotate his dentures about.
Hence the insurmountable disconnect. The way of the North Shore shit-ass grates like a mutha on those of us born and raised the old Chicago way.
MF-ing women must've been something wholly acceptable and encouraged in the Emanuel household during the formative years of the little North Shore shit-ass.
When the story first broke it was all out there that Karen Lewis' husband was quite keen on "taking it to the alley" and having a man to man with Rahm for profanely addressing his wife.
Rahm ran and hid like a little bitch...
Heh... THAT'S some REAL Chicago Values we believe in!
Part of the reason Rahm wants so desperately to be rid of us... We remember the good of the old way and have the collective muscle memory of what's truly effective and what's pure-dee bullshit.
Fuck "new and improved" just because the label says new and improved. Especially when "it ain't broke and in no need of fixing."
Destroying this department in order to remake in their image.
Heh... It's on good authority that McIdunno and his N.Y.P.D henchmen have their noses out of joint at the "We don't care how they do it in New York" tee shirts and stickers popping up of late.
mike flanery is a piece of shit- "teachers have no skin in the game" fuck that punk
"Catholic here and my own church supports them and helps them So i stopped giving on Sunday."
Make sure that the church knows why you & your fellow parish members have stopped giving.
It's the only way they'll get the message.
"Re: A quirk in the law dictates that a child must be present before enforcement action can be taken."
The Tribune is full of it.
It's not a "quirk" at all. It's the intent of the law.
"On School Days When Children Are Present"
1) School Day
2) Children PHYSICALLY PRESENT on sidewalks/streets adjacent to the school
I notcied a lot of the teacher-bashers can't spell. Are those Rahm's trolls trying to disguise themselves?
9/11/2012 08:45:00 PM
Come on, dude. You just made it too easy. Notcied? Really? Try proofreading when you try to be superior.
Rahm is not the problem. The teachers and the community organizations want their own person in office to insure they get whatever they want and because they are stupid. They're now predicting a big tax hike to. pay for the generous raises the teachers are getting. These idiots think money grows on trees instead of coming out of the pockets of taxpayers. As for some of their complaints..no supplies - a school was caught throwing out thousands of dollars of supplies, they sand it was because someone ordered the wrong supplies. They want to do teacher evaluations- a large number if teachers do not have basic skills because they had bad teachers which is starting a vicious circle of bad teachers =bad students ...They may get their demands but they will pay in the end and I voted for Rahm in the last election and will.vote for Rahm in the election.
As a strike related aside: after talking to a tact team today was told they are on twelve hour days...because the higher ups think the teachers will get violent...SAY WHAT???? It came to me...I bet Rahm has increased the police costs by putting tact teams on standby in twelve hour shifts to increase spending so he can say: "look what the teacher strike has cost!!!" What a crock of b.s.!!!! The teachers are about as likely to get violent as ghandi was!!! If it isn't Rahm trying to sell the kool-aid then it shows how well our bosses understand the typical CPS teacher.
Carol said...
Well I've been reading you coppers for a couple months now and from what I'm hearing, the teachers deserve combat pay for working at CPS.
9/11/2012 03:24:00 PM
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On that note, see this:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LoganSquare/message/31638
Anonymous said...
My wife, who is a teacher sent me this link. I never fully understood the teacher strike until I read this:
http://chicagoteacher1.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/a-union-workers-take-sticking-points-and-the-flawed-system/
9/11/2012 03:41:00 PM
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On that note, here's another:
http://dianeravitch.net/2012/09/11/a-chicago-teacher-why-i-am-striking/#comments
and some clarity re: the benefit (or lack thereof)of what Vitale, et. al are insisting upon:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/chicago-teachers-strike-the-issues/2012/09/10/8a8173d8-fb69-11e1-b2af-1f7d12fe907a_blog.html
1. Chicago public school teachers are already well compensated. By CTU’s own figures an average teacher earns a salary of $71,000 (CPS reports the number is $76,000 without benefits). Even if we only compare CPS teachers to others with college degrees, they still do well. According to the US Census American Community Survey, the median annual wage for persons with a college degree is $48,866 in Chicago. CPS teachers earn nearly half again as much as an average worker in Chicago with a college degree.
Note: Average teacher pay at Urban Prep Academy, the Chicago charter school that has sent 100% of its graduates to college for the third consecutive year is $47,714.
Note: CTU walked away from a $400 million package that include a 16 percent raise.
Note: CPS is currently offering a 16% pay increase.
Dispelling longer school day myth: Under the interim agreement, teachers will continue to work roughly the same hours they do now. Instead of requiring teachers to work a 20 percent longer day, the Chicago Public Schools have agreed to hire more teachers to fill the extra instruction time with such classes as art, music and physical education.
2. Four out of every ten kids who start freshman year at a public high school in Chicago do not graduate. While poverty and crime certainly complicate instruction, this is not a system where anyone, including the administration, teachers or the union, can rest on their laurels.
3. Chicago public schools expect to drain their cash reserves in the upcoming year and are likely facing another shortfall of as large as $1 billion the year after that. It is doubtful that the district can afford across-the-board pay raises.
Note: CPS had to return a $35 million federal grant — Teacher Incentive Fund — because CTU refused to implement merit pay. CTU called CPS’ acceptance of the grant a “fraudulent action.”
4. Chicago receives almost $2 billion in funding from the state tax funds. That means almost 35 percent of Chicago’s total funding for education comes from state taxpayer funds. The entire state, not just Chicago, is paying for the failures of CPS and CTU.
5. CPS has the shortest school days and year in the nation when compared to the ten largest cities in the nation.
West Side, Inside Do-Nothing said...
9/11/2012 01:33:00 AM
Still won't let you write in FOP newsletter? do they let you proofread it?
As far as this teachers' strike goes -- the question is only who will be left standing to distribute the NEA/Communist/Inner Party poison -- Lewis' red-shirted Obamaite CTU or the Daley/Emanuel UNO/rev/Hispano-Marxist "charter schools" with their bullhorn marches and their Che Guevara flags.
No-win situation.
Just because Rahm keeps saying it doesn't make it true, but Channel 7, along with the Sun Times, are publishing so much slanted crap already this week, it's sickening.........
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They're mhar's propaganda corps, they do as they are told or else !!!
Anonymous said...
Rahm is not the problem. The teachers and the community organizations want their own person in office to insure they get whatever they want and because they are stupid. They're now predicting a big tax hike to. pay for the generous raises the teachers are getting. These idiots think money grows on trees instead of coming out of the pockets of taxpayers. As for some of their complaints..no supplies - a school was caught throwing out thousands of dollars of supplies, they sand it was because someone ordered the wrong supplies. They want to do teacher evaluations- a large number if teachers do not have basic skills because they had bad teachers which is starting a vicious circle of bad teachers =bad students ...They may get their demands but they will pay in the end and I voted for Rahm in the last election and will.vote for Rahm in the election.
9/12/2012 01:08:00 AM
Dear Rahm's Fluffer:
You blame the wrong supplies being ordered on the teachers? They don't order them, the morons at their Central Office order them. They're not teachers. And they have wasted money on the joke suppliers for years.
"The teachers and the community organizations want their own person in office to insure they get whatever they want and because they are stupid."
You can't even construct proper sentences. Don't call others stupid.
Rahm is not the problem. .....I voted for Rahm in the last election and will.vote for Rahm in the election.
9/12/2012 01:08:00 AM
so, what you're saying is.... you are the problem.
I notcied a lot of the teacher-bashers can't spell. Are those Rahm's trolls trying to disguise themselves?
9/11/2012 08:45:00 PM
Come on, dude. You just made it too easy. Notcied? Really? Try proofreading when you try to be superior.
9/12/2012 12:21:00 AM
try being 'superior', when you post a response to a comment.
like not having only a single typo to complain about, whilst ignoring the comment's points.
the primary goal of every child is to grow to adulthood without turning into an asshole.
the duty of every teacher, parent, other adult family members, etc., is to be the example of how to both be an adult and not be an asshole.
because we all know what an asshole produces.
Anonymous said...
"Re: A quirk in the law dictates that a child must be present before enforcement action can be taken."
The Tribune is full of it.
It's not a "quirk" at all. It's the intent of the law.
"On School Days When Children Are Present"
1) School Day
2) Children PHYSICALLY PRESENT on sidewalks/streets adjacent to the school
9/12/2012 12:07:00 AM
Just like turn on red when pedestrians are present.
What moron didn't check the law before selling the rights to the cameras? They say bidding is still ongoing, but I wouldn't be surprised if some contractor sues the city.
9/12/2012 12:21:00 AM
try being 'superior', when you post a response to a comment.
like not having only a single typo to complain about, whilst ignoring the comment's points.
9/12/2012 12:19:00 PM
The response itself addresses the comment. In spades. You missed the point. And no, I'm not the response poster.
Anonymous said...
I notcied a lot of the teacher-bashers can't spell. Are those Rahm's trolls trying to disguise themselves?
9/11/2012 08:45:00 PM
Come on, dude. You just made it too easy. Notcied? Really? Try proofreading when you try to be superior.
9/12/2012 12:21:00 Am
try being 'superior', when you post a response to a comment.
like not having only a single typo to complain about, whilst ignoring the comment's points.
9/12/2012 12:19:00 PM
The Mexican Says:
Perhaps you should learn to use upper-case letters whilst responding to a response.
Rahm is definitely a king douche but I don't really have any sympathy for the CTU; they brought this on themselves by demanding more, more, more even when it was obvious the city can't afford it. Now the whole planet is broke and nobody gives a shit.
here's a good article about the Rahm kool-aid and teachers view points on the strike, from a teacher who is forgoing pay... because he cares about the children...
http://chicagoteacher1.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/a-union-workers-take-sticking-points-and-the-flawed-system/
Let's try posting this again...
READ THIS: Chicago teachers march in solidarity with international socialists
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/12/Chicasgo-Teachers-March-in-Solidarity-with-International-Socialists
The teachers mention the "Arab Spring" when referring to their strike. To the FOP and it's members..is this the kind of union leadership you are siding with? Do you believe in communism/marxism/socialism? If you don't why are you in sympathy with the Chicago Teacher's Union? The hell with this union..let them fight their own problems. Do you want leftists teaching your children? Are you satisfied with the communist/marxist/socialist/muzzie sympathizer oboma and his government leftists? Separate yourselves from leftist leaning unions...do not support leftist operations of any kind.
Why is a Hedge Fund Managers group funding ads against the CTU? Let's guess, maybe because they are completely anti-union? Funded by whom? You figure it out. Just be careful what you wish for, you might get it. CPD, you are next, as are your CFD compatriots. Game on people, do something other than mouthing the usual crap you hear from some know nothing moron.
Joe Taxpayer said...
> No sympathy here for the striking teachers.
>
> Heard a teacher interviewed on WBBM780 today saying that it is their
> right to get a raise. WTF?
>
> This "sense of entitlement" has engulfed everyone in Chicago.
>
> There ain't no right for you to get a raise. Get over it.
Next time your boss tells you the "There ain't no right for you to get a raise. Get over it", you're going like, thank him for reminding you, right? When he tears up the contract where he signed for the raise you aren't going to be getting.
> Better start reading about the economy around you and when teachers are
> making 80% more than the average person living in Chicago, they have
> NO RIGHT to complain about what they make. Plus - NO private sector
> employee gets any type of pension that even comes close to a teacher's pension.
80% my ass. How come you suddenly believe those professional b.s.ers?
And what has YOUR union done about your pension? Why not?
>
> You can also see a lot of mis-information out there as far as numbers
> not adding up to a 16% raise across 4 years. Don't just look at pay –
> look at benefits.
Look at hours and working conditions too while you're at it.
>
> Chicago teachers only pay 3% of their healthcare costs. What's the bitch?
> You got it made.
So you're too much of a candy ass to be in a union that gets you what you deserve there too, huh?
> These are way different times and no one should be bitching about pay and
> benefits because the teachers are already getting platinum benefits and
> they are one of the highest - if not the highest - paid in the country.
"On average" If Bill Gates goes to a soup kitchen, the average net worth of every person there is a billion dollars. The average American has 0.98 testicles.
> Parents in Chicago want better education - but they don't want to pay
> higher property taxes (one lady called in on WLS Monday PM). Well too
> F'ing bad. Do you think the state has to pay for this bureaucratic
> wasteland? She wants quality education for her kids- but doesn't want to
> pay 10% more in property taxes.
If you don't know that Mayor [not to be named] Junior set up a scam where the first half billion dollars (the B is not a typo) off the top from property taxes goes into his slush fund, go back to Chicago citizenship school and learn about T.I.F.s.
Then do the chapter where you have to actually read the state constitution and see what it says about funding education.
This information is worth everyone's attention. Where
can I find out more?
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