CPS Bait and Switch
Typical Rahm ploy:
- Go out and threaten to do something bad.
- Let everyone get riled up.
- Back off slightly and let people think they won.
- Laugh
- Bask in the glory of the "great compromiser"
Rahm did this with city stickers, proposing an increase in fees for vehicles over a certain weight. When it was discovered that all the soccer moms with minivans would be hammered with massive sticker fee increases, there was much hue and cry.
So Rahm "compromised." All city stickers went up by $10 bucks across the board. Rahm got his influx of money pretending to be reasonable to the minivan owners, when the $10 increase was what he wanted all along. He just pretended to overreach, then backed off to what he figured he needed in the first place. And the low-information sheeple (and media) sang hymns in praise of having a reasonable mayor who was responsive to the needs of the citizens.
But it was all bullshit. And here comes more bullshit:
So Rahm "compromised." All city stickers went up by $10 bucks across the board. Rahm got his influx of money pretending to be reasonable to the minivan owners, when the $10 increase was what he wanted all along. He just pretended to overreach, then backed off to what he figured he needed in the first place. And the low-information sheeple (and media) sang hymns in praise of having a reasonable mayor who was responsive to the needs of the citizens.
But it was all bullshit. And here comes more bullshit:
- At least a few of the 53 Chicago Public Schools targeted for closing could be dropped from the list before Wednesday’s final school board vote, under pressure from black aldermen to follow hearing officers’ recommendations, City Hall sources said Friday.
The chairman of the City Council’s Black Caucus has demanded that Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his handpicked school board follow retired judges’ recommendations to keep open 13 of the 53 schools.
To do otherwise, Ald. Howard Brookins (21st) claimed, would be to “render the whole proceeding a joke” when Emanuel is the one who set it up.
No Howard, the joke is on you. Rahm is still going to close 40 schools. We aren't saying that Rahm is wrong closing 40 schools, but Howard Brookins is wrong think that Rahm isn't getting exactly what he wants. Howard is playing to his constituents by "fighting" Rahm and "winning." But we're pretty sure Rahm is letting Howard "win" while Rahm walks away with 75% of his proposed closings taking place as planned.
75% versus 25% - it's not hard to see who won.
75% versus 25% - it's not hard to see who won.
Labels: city politics
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
40 Comments:
Its called posturing. Citizens keep believing. No Leaders here. Just let officials drag us around and mentally rule us.
Does, can, will anyone ever tell this mayor "No." I know this city and the politicians are more than corrupt, but there has got to be someone, anyone who can just tell him, "No, you cannot do whatever the hell you want to." Please, anyone, before he screws this city and its residents worse than Daley.
If the black caucus and their ghetto constiuants didn't destroy their own neighborhoods many once peaceful areas like Englewood and Garfield Park would still have a taxpaying base to pay for the schools.
More and more Rahm is looking like that Ron Johnson - the whiz from APPLE that took over JC Penneys, where he listened to no one, everything had to be changed/updated immediately, and he ran it into the ground.
He did the same thing with closing the libraries. And then people thought they 'won' when he compromised.
It's called the art of negotiation. If you're selling at a flea market, you mark your stuff higher than you plan to sell it for. You let the buyer make his offers, then you 'settle' for the price you always intended to sell the item for, anyway.
But, if you play it right, and smile a lot, and touch the buyer on the arm a little, they buyer thinks they really got a great deal.
They need to close a lot more than 53. CPS is a disaster. Why not give parents vouchers to send their kids to the schools of their choice. The good schools will grow and the bad schools will close. Let the parents decide.
Do people do this at home or work every day like Rahm does? MOst people would get fired or the old lady would kick em out. When will enough of people have enough of Rahm?
Stupid stupid voters. HAH!
Isn't that how Kim Jong-un rules too?
They need to close a lot more than 53. CPS is a disaster. Why not give parents vouchers to send their kids to the schools of their choice. The good schools will grow and the bad schools will close. Let the parents decide.
5/18/2013 01:34:00 AM
Sort of like the housing voucher? Let them move into good neighborhoods. How's that working out for you?
Hey can some one help me out here? My wife takes the Blue Line from Cumberland downtown. When she got bck yesterday from work the Rate was raised from $5 to $6. Does anyone know why? More $ coing out of my pocket I see.
Does anyone really think that Brookins can out-manuever Rahm?
They need to close a lot more than 53. CPS is a disaster. Why not give parents vouchers to send their kids to the schools of their choice. The good schools will grow and the bad schools will close.
Why should I give them any money? My parents broke their asses to send me and my 2 brothers to Chatholic grade school and high school. No ONE gave us any money to help us out.
Rahms favorite move = Red Herring
You would think even the lemmings would catch on.
Plus Rahm collects favors for each school he does not close.
We prefer to be treated like intelligent adults. We prefer the truth. We educate ourselves about such matters. We are in the minority.
How about we pay potential unfit parents not to have kids they have no skills or interest in raising with vouchers. That will also increase the number of "good" schools and solve a whole bunch of problems.
A large part of our taxes go toward the Chicago Public School system.
Year after year reports of poor education for our children emerge as the schools post the failures of the year.
Soooooo, if we paid for something, say, a good meal, or paying to have your car fixed, and the meal was bad or the mechanic didn't fix it right, you would scream bloody murder because you spent your money for a service you didn't receive.
Just does not seem right. It;s like the weatherman job, you can keep that job even though day after day your wrong.
Go figure.....
What about this bullshit about having to pay for preschool only if you have a job?
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They need to close a lot more than 53. CPS is a disaster. Why not give parents vouchers to send their kids to the schools of their choice. The good schools will grow and the bad schools will close. Let the parents decide.
5/18/2013 01:34:00 AM<<<
As the "good schools" grow they will become ghettoized, gang infested and trashed.
Too bad there isn't a way to shrink neighborhood schools when enrollment drops instead of closing them.
I thought I was the only one who thought this. People are fuckin stupid
rahm needs to reduce aldercreatures from 50 to 20
put them in a grid system like garbage pick up
5 on east side , 5 west side ,
5 north and 5 south side
who cares if only 5 end up white , city will save a few million $$
Give the little savages chalkboards and a bag of flamin' hots!
Bait and switch like FOP is doing with our contract.
Especially when Rahm really only wanted %60. Wonder how much the UNO/Reyes schools paid for this.
"Why not give parents vouchers to send their kids to the schools of their choice."
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Uh...no.
I don't want these ghetto bastards anywhere near my kids. Particularly not in their schools.
And I believe I speak for any other parent that elects to send their kid(s) to a private school. Not only do we not reap any benefit of the exorbitant property tax money we pay that is earmarked for CPS, but we pay thousands to send our kids to private schools for a greater assurance of safety and better caliber of facilities, teachers, etcetera. We take these measures because they're necessary for a myriad of reasons. If you're not smart enough to figure those reasons out, I hope you aren't capable of reproducing.
There's a reason - several, actually - why your logic is skewed. Think before you speak (blog), jackass.
"Mad-again is doing the same thing with the state pensions.
His proposal in the House is an end of world deal. The other guy in the senate, with the help of "We Are One", has a compromise that will "save the pension" by sticking the stick only halfway up the retiree's ass.
I say the joke is on you if you dont think the Alderman wasnt in on it from the beginning. Rahm does not make a move without knowing the outcome. I dotn lie him either but, sorry to say he is a very smart, powerful man.
Can anyone tell me where and when the White Caucus meets? Oh, sorry, that would be racist.
They need to close a lot more than 53. CPS is a disaster. Why not give parents vouchers to send their kids to the schools of their choice. The good schools will grow and the bad schools will close. Let the parents decide.
This would be democracy at work, I bet the machine would not like it. They want everything socialized.
"The timid man yearns for full value and asks a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par." -- Mark Twain
Which is to say that Emanuel is doing what every good negotiator does.
Just A Civilian (who wishs he'd do it with all the vendors and contractors feeding off the city...)
Here's a really interesting analysis of the "facts" from the Mayor's Office vs. reality.
http://www.wbez.org/news/fact-check-chicago-school-closings-107216
It's a long article, but worth a peek, even if you just read parts of it.
I don't want these ghetto bastards anywhere near my kids. Particularly not in their schools.
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My kid has one in her class...constantly disrupting class and no discipline works, of course. Got all F grades on recent midquarter grade report and asked the teachers why they gave him all Fs. Homeroom teacher told him that's what he earned.
Why should I give them any money? My parents broke their asses to send me and my 2 brothers to Chatholic grade school and high school. No ONE gave us any money to help us out.
5/18/2013 07:33:00 AM
One would never know your claim to be factual by reading your post.
Rham showed his true colors on the 48 hour special by not answering the reporters questions after saying he would. Fuckin pussy!
Anonymous said...
I don't want these ghetto bastards anywhere near my kids. Particularly not in their schools.
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My kid has one in her class...constantly disrupting class and no discipline works, of course. Got all F grades on recent midquarter grade report and asked the teachers why they gave him all Fs. Homeroom teacher told him that's what he earned.
5/18/2013 08:31:00 PM
It's the paint chips. Blame the paint chips.
And Whitey.
The original number of schools to close was 100. Most of the critics are admitting that some of the schools do need to close because they are underutilizied, so what is the point in all of this?
This needs to be broken down so that the simple minded Chicago voter can understand it. You pay X dollars in taxes. Y dollars goes to a broken public school system. If you got that amount in your hand and sent your kids to schools of your choice, you would come out ahead.
Of course the ghetto savage pays nothing and doesn't care where the child goes but away, but normal people would get it.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel is pushing lawmakers to pass a gambling bill that would allow the city to weigh its choice of a casino operator in secret and forbid state regulators from taking away its license.
Dear Mr. Emmanuel,
I am sick and tired of hearing you spout your rhetoric about how 100% of any revenues from a Chicago Casino should go directly to Chicago Public Schools. In case you haven't noticed the Board of Education is just like the Deep Tunnel Project. We keep pouring money into the deep tunnel and only to watch our basements flood. Then we’re told that we need to complete another expansion for it to work effectively and still our basements flood. Similarly, we keep pouring money into the Board of Education for new programs, head start, free breakfast and lunch and busing to the tune of 50% of our property taxes and nothing changes. The Chicago public schools spent $12,193 per student in 2011 while the average cost of a student sent to a Chicago Archdiocesan school was 6387.00. If we’re spending almost twice as much per student and only getting half of the students to the state norm then we’re throwing money away. To put it another way if the United States Secretary of Education, Arnie Duncan, who your president declared to be the best and brightest, could not fix this problem while he was here then obviously there must not be a solution. Stop throwing our tax dollars in CPS deep tunnel and demand they do more with less. 100% of any Casino profits should be used to pay back the Chicago Police Pension Fund shortage that you helped foster by shrinking the size of the police force by 2500 officers and not conforming to the actuarial studies done to the Chicago Police Pension Fund by paying only the mandated minimum. As you are learning, there is strength in numbers; otherwise you would not be hiring back 400 police officers per day on their days off at 150% of their normal pay rate. Hire more police so the current police officers working your overtime initiative, who average 4 days off per month, are not burned out before summers end. Make their pension fund whole and then the kids might have a chance to make it through 12 years of school before being gunned down due to the lack of police preserving life and property. If you have a lawful society then everything else will fall into place. I just don’t understand how murder and maiming benefits the kids. After all isn’t it all about the kids? How about we start by giving them a safe environment to attend school and participate in sports. That would truly benefit the kids. When you say it's all about the kids you mean you want the citizens to believe that it’s all about the kids. The only reason you have chosen the all about the kids’ campaign is so you can enrich you Charter School Friends who can in return enrich you. You know that 50% of all property taxes collected go to the Board Of Education so that is the biggest chunk of money out there to be pilfered. If it was really about the kids you would not have let so many of them get killed since you took office by not hiring police officers.
12:18 well said
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