Rahm to Spend Another Million
- Four years after sinking Venetian Night to save $300,000, City Hall has set aside $1 million for a “Great Chicago Fire Festival” along the Chicago River that will culminate in floats being set on fire.
Testifying Wednesday at City Council budget hearings, Cultural Affairs and Special Events Commissioner Michelle Boone also disclosed that her budget includes an extra $3.6 million because the city is “accelerating the payment of debt” issued to build $475 million Millennium Park.
Plagued by cost overruns and add-ons that more than tripled its original budget, Millennium Park will turn 10 in 2014. The city is in the process of planning a celebration for the showcase park that has emerged as one of Chicago’s most popular tourist attractions.
Here's a thought - instead of lighting this million dollars on fire (which is pretty much what they're doing), how about they light these floats on fire and run some of them down 63rd Street and a few others down Madison through the west side? The urban renewal opportunities might actually make up for the million dollars.
Labels: dumb ideas, money questions
posted by SCC at 12:02 AM
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Hahaha, I love your idea to funny!
A Great Chicago Fire Festival?
This is just bad taste, on SO many levels.
Rahm's next brilliant enterprises will surely be the:
Iroquois Theater Arts Festival
Eastland Disaster Yacht Races
Commemorative Chicago Flood of 1992 Swimming Meet
Leopold and Loeb Personal Self- Esteem Workshop and Festival
And before you rip on me, I know they're in bad taste. As bad as torching barges and lighting a match to millions of hard-earned dollars to 'celebrate' a devastating fire.
Really? We're going to have a Great Chicago Fire Party? Give me back my Venetian Night. My fireworks. My police protection. My shuttered firehouses.
Maybe even do something boring and FUND the PENSIONS of the people who have sweated and sacrificed for this once-great city.
I wonder if Nero Emanuel will literally fiddle as his personal playtoy, Chicago, burns.
This has to be the stupidest idea yet. Literally, money up in smoke.
Fuckin' hilarious suggestion to run 'em down 63rd St!!!!!
that's the pension money going up in flames. enjoy it and celebrate it.
why doesn't the city choose to accelerate the payments they owe the pension funds eh.
you would accelerate the payments to your connected businesses, friends and relatives and cronies on the payroll if you were getting ready to file bankruptcy wouldn't you.
sure take care of your cronies. that's how the corrupt system here works.
chicago has only 8.7 days of cash on hand to pay it's bills according to the wall street journal. google it.
that's not much of a cushion. one small disaster and it's back to selling more bonds, bonds that destroy all of our futures because the money that is borrowed is put on our tab.
the full faith and trust of our currency and bonds have a guarantee to the bondholders that the political apparatus will have us all work as slaves if necessary to pay that debt back.
yep...
Rahm and his Special Events Director have a lot of nerve considering to spend such a huge amount of money on 'Nothing'. According to statements, they plan to spend a Million dollars to set floats on fire to Celebrate the Chicago Fire.
How is it we are straddled with these Dumbbells?? Nervy and outrageous...one trying to out-do the other and Grunts like we Taxpayers are on the cuff for their stupid stuff. No wonder the real estate market in Chicago has not improved. Dumb and Dumber. Can't get out of here fast enough.
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"Oh yeah, one more thing: Let's have some Schlitz's!"
The FOP (who have done nothing for you lately) should be up in arms and all over the news about this.
Hey Rahm, here's a novel thought = instead of wasting 1 million dollars lighting stuff on fire
How about you use that to fund the pensions?
Eliminating retiree health care and spending more money on parties ?
No COLA for retirees born after 1955 and we are burning money on the river ?
Arrogance
Actually, it might be a good idea. Advertise it as a Viking cruise, for FREE.
When the freeloaders sign up, give them a VIP seat on a barge, and send them off to Valhalla, or wherever such folk go.
P.S. Do they still make nasty Schlitz?
A better idea would be to allow the US Army to establish an artillery gunnery range in this area. The urban redevelopment would be much quicker.
This was chosen as a result of two ideas by Cultural Affairs/Special Events Commissioner Boone.
One was to set up booths in July along Columbus Drive and sell overpriced food portions. At the conclusion they were going to burn down all the booths.
They were going to call it, 'The Pricey Portions-Baste of Chicago.'
Instead they settled for the other million dollar idea and have yet to chose between the two titles, Flaming Floats or Burning Barges-Waste of Chicago.
You're Welcome
.....talk about bad taste!! Setting fires are FUN. Are we out to emulate Detroit's "Festival of Fires" - their annual Halloween extravaganza?
>>>>'The city is in the process of planning a celebration (Cultural Affairs and Special Events Commissioner Michelle Boone) ..a “Great Chicago Fire Festival” along the Chicago River that will culminate in floats being set on fire...<<<<
What..the..fuck ?!? Somebody needs their head examined: --- The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned from Sunday, October 8, to early Tuesday, October 10, 1871, killing hundreds and destroying about 3.3 square miles ... ---
People died, dammit. It's nothing to fucking 'Celebrate'.
What's goddamn next from these dimwits?...'Invasion of Poland Celebration', 'Blitzkrieg Beer Bash', 'Firebombing of Dresden Festival'. Or best of all and just for Rahm, he can be the Grand Marshal of the *parade*: 'Happy Holocaust'.
Not to worry. It's not like it is real money (campaign funds) being burned. It's only taxpayer dollars.
Once again the city is not broke they always have money for their pet projects but not for their manufactured pension mess they created, all done by design. But the media never reports the truth.
Rahm--here is an idea....put up one of your millions to (literally) set fire to.
After all, you really didn't earn any of those estimated 30 mllion dollara after your buddy Bill Clinton placed you on the Fannie and Freddie boards. It was payback for you getting him his morning coffee, his lunchtime cheeseburger and for squirreling Monica (and the others) out the secret exit after they took care of Bill's ejaculatory needs.
Your only formal training was a BA in Communications from a historically women's college. NO MBA, NO LAW DEGREE, NO ECONOMICS TRAINING, NO POLITICAL SCIENCE DEGREE.
How the hell did you ever rise so high in power? Even Richard M Daley had an advanced degree.
Here's an idea---instead of pissing away more money on city scaping project, how about taking care of some of the bills Daley ran up?
We Hate You, You Hate Us. The only difference we admit it.
It's for the children.
WTF?
Where do these feverish, incoherent, maniacally twitching and babbling m/fers COME FROM with these fucked up ideas?
They're no better than soviet era commissars dueling with one another to come up with the most hare-brained diversionary bullshit to distract people with...
Why not take a shit in Rahm's veggie garden and light it on fire?
Seriously?
$1 MILLION for a "Great Chicago Fire Festival" Downtown culminating in the floats being set on fire?
Who their right fucking mind is going to attend this shit? It's going to be nothing but a cavalcade of shit-heads running around Downtown slapping people in the eye and taking their shit!
"Dey jest havin' fun an' shit cuz dey wanna be where da Po-leece ain't!"
Hell... Have a contest where The first m/fer who can steal a car from one of Rahm al-Ghoul's North Shore/Gold Coast contributors and torch it in Daley Plaza at the stroke of midnight.
The winner gets a fat-ass blunt, a hundo in dirty, dye pack stained singles, a shopping bag full of Flamin' Hot O-Ke-Dokes and taco meat smothered with pump cheese, a case of grape pop and a fat-ass blunt.
See? Much more fun for everyone!
Rahm Emanuel is a worm...
Schlitz is gauche. If you must drink beer, make it Goose Island.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Every day this City gets more like ancient Rome! Consider that this type of floating vessels and setting them on fire is something the Romans did in their circuses to keep the masses entertained and under control. And many of the emperors were little weasels like Rahm and Da Boss, Daley II. Also note, that Roman Empire collapsed, went broke and Italy has been a backwater ever since.
Why would you honor a tragedy, let alone honor it with an arson? This is one of the most inane ideas yet and better not happen. It is an insult to all of us.
This is the most sickening thing I've ever heard. Hundreds of men, women and children DIED in a horrific, torturous manner and this city wants to celebrate that with a fucking parade? Not only a parade, but a parade that is LIT ON FIRE?! What kind of sick minded asshole would come up with this idea. There are families that still live here who lost distant relatives in the fire. My family included. I find it disgusting, immoral and cruel. Why don't we just have parades commemorating the world wars where people get up on floats and shoot each other? Or have a parade for the almost 800 people that died in the heat wave of 1995. We can set up giant blast furnaces and cook the crowds on the parade route. You know what Rahm? Karma's a bitch. This is a huge dishonor to the dead. How do you sleep at night?
but it's the pensions that are ruining everything.....not him spending $$$ money on this nonsense.....
Hey Rahm! Fuck you! Pay me.
He doesnt care because it is not his money.
More found money, wonder how many billions are stashed in secret funds? The Feds will never investigate as rahm has Barry in the White House and is kissing Clinton's ass even though God willing she is not elected to send this country further into the death spiral! Just w read where Putin of Russia is more well respected than Obama! Putin though is a real man!
A lot of people died in the Great Chicago Fire, and we are going to set floats on fire to celebrate? While we're at it, why don't we implode downtown buildings to celebrate 911?
OT: However its about our un-common sense government.
Re Obamacare: why didn't
they just offer insuraance packages to those without it and let the rest of us alone. Now, everyone in the middle class is involved one way or the other with this ill-conceived liberal insurance project....which has nothing to do with health care, whatsoever.
This government is surely not run by brain surgeons. Folks are getting pretty concerned.
A million dolla' Great Chicago Fire Fest...why not just direct the tour bus along any street in Englewoods or Fillmo', the same areas that Rahm pledged millions to demolish the abandoned drug flats. That's a Cultural Affair worthy of a Special Event.
So rather than pay their pension obligation, the City squanders money on frivolous distractions.
How bout a "running of the shitheads" down a dead end street to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the e2...ahem..."disaster"?
$ to burn..but, no raise for you! a really silly idea. insulting to every ''taxpayer'' in the city. ooops! half the people here don't pay for anything anyway!how about hiring 25 new police officers? and sending them up in taxpayer,not hater land too!
This city is ao fucking bacwards....Aristotle once said something like this............politicians need to be the most moral members of soociety or its doomed to collapse upon itself.............is it so far fetched to believe that this country is collapsing?
Swan Lake sleeps at night because he gets his rx home delivery straight from the Devil (in the White City- sorry, couldn't resist).
What an arrogant, uncaring asswipe. Shameful.
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Overtime to hit $93 million by year's end"
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-chicago-will-pay-police-93m-in-overtime-this-year-20131031,0,6772319.story
On the Path to Detroit....
Good guest essay in 10/31 Trib - written by Chicago born & raised - now Davenport IA City Administrator Craig Malin.
Calm, well articulated & experienced voice of reason; warning citizens of disasters looming around the bend if things don't change soon.
Sigh, the powers are entrenched and I don't see change acomin' so I will be packing bags at retirement :-(
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This is insane!!! Our taxes and water go up for this! All I can say is Nero the city is burning! I mean Tiny Dancer the city is on fire!
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