Find us This Rahm Quote
Forward it here and maybe to the FOP:
- Someone should use Rahms own words in reference to the pension payment due. Rahm used the analogy "this isn't like a final exam that you wait to the last minute and cram in studying, start early" This was used for building owners of high rise buildings that their is a deadline to convert into sprinkler systems. Hmm sounds exactly what his administration is doing with our pension issue
Everything is "start early," or "plan ahead." Except of course, where it relates to actual contractually promised pensions/pension payments. Then it's, "We have no money to fulfill the agreements made because we spent it all on parks and stadiums and bike lanes."
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posted by SCC at 12:02 AM
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We can talk till we are blue in the face, its going to happen unless we do something about it now. And when it happens, we will deserve it all, because we didn't do anything about it. FOP sue the city now, how about it Dean Angelo. You know the pension board will do nothing. How about Dean Angelo.
Hey asshole Rahm if you and your predecessor, shit for brains Daley, would have followed the law, the city would not have to be on the hook for a lump sum payment. But blame everyone else except you mutts for not doing what is required for you and the city to do.
If as a nation we are no longer going to enforce our borders what's next?
If national borders don't matter maybe private property borders soon won't matter either?
Paying bills don't seem to matter unless of course it's us paying our income taxes.
Jan 14, 2012
Now city officials are pushing building owners to make those fire-safety improvements before that deadline. Mayor Rahm Emanuel lectured high-rise owners that they shouldn't delay making their property safer.
"This is not like a final exam where you wait until the last hour of the last day to figure this out. I expect you to use this time to put in place a sprinkler system and the safety and security systems you need. … I don't expect you to use the time all the way to the end."
Human nature being what it is, the mayor and council surely should expect it. Building owners got one extension. They may expect that come 2015, they'll be able to convince aldermen that another three-year extension is a dandy idea.
Let's push up the compliance date. Building owners have had seven years to come up to standards, and have been given less expensive alternatives. How much longer should it take?
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-01-14/opinion/ct-edit-fire-20120114_1_high-rise-owners-fire-safety-building-code
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/17753115-418/no-second-thoughts-about-fire-safety-extension-alderman-says.html
They have it their way. Welcome to the city of spin doctors, aka propaganda!
I dont think the FOP wants to confront Mayor Emanuel on any issue in fears of not receiving a decent salary increase. Most likely a "promise" was made to give retro diring the meeting where Dean gave the Mayor children's books in exchange to remain silent in the upcoming Mayoral campaign.
"You're missing a check and I'm missing half a finger. Big fucking deal".
The TIF Illumination report just came out with its 2013 analysis.
CITY HAD $1.71 BILLION IN PROPERTY TAXES IN TIF ACCOUNTS ON JANUARY 1, 2014
A review of the 2013 annual reports of the City’s 151 Tax Increment Financing Districts by volunteers with the TIF Illumination Project revealed some startling facts about local government finance:
•Total Property Tax Increment extraction for 2013 = $412,083,831 (a decrease from 2012 of $37.3 million or 8.3%) This is the amount of property taxes extracted by Chicago’s TIF districts and diverted from local units of government that rely on property taxes for their operation. 56% of Chicago property taxes are SUPPOSED to go to the Chicago Public Schools.
•21 TIFs take at least 90% of ALL property taxes collected inside their borders.
•The Top Ten TIFs collected a total of $203.3 million in property taxes in 2013. These are the “champions” in terms of property tax extraction. The Number One TIF = Near South, collected $61 million in 2013, representing 92% of total property taxes collected inside that district.
•Total Expenditures = $385,988,162 (an increase from 2012 of $83.2 million or 25%) This is how much all of Chicago’s TIF districts spent in 2013.
•Total Fund Balance = $1,708,029,756 (an increase of 1.7%) This is how much property taxes were left in all the TIF accounts on January 1, 2014.
•Total revenues transferred INTO TIFs = $136,567,807. This how much revenue was placed INTO TIF accounts from other TIFs.
•Total revenues transferred OUT of TIFs = $144,684,263 – leaving $8.1 million unaccounted for.
•The Top Ten TIFs in terms of fund balance were holding $627,404,228 in property taxes on January 1, 2014.
•Chicago’s 24 expired or repealed TIFs have collected $1.3 billion in property taxes, including a staggering $986,767,890 from the Central Loop TIF which expired in 2008.
•The Department of Planning and Development extracted $7,558,864 for staffing costs from 91 TIFs.(Skimming the skim)
The most striking number was the finding that over $1.7 billion in property taxes was sitting in TIF accounts on January 1, 2014.
http://www.tifreports.com/
No need to raise taxes to pay for pensions, just end the TIFs.
The city should not be in control of our pension $ in the first place. We should decide collectively who controls our pension funds. I mean really, would you give your life savings to a thief and say I trust you will keep this safe for me until I need it at a later time? Didn't think so!
Dean Angelo, is what that poster is saying true? Did you sell us down the river to? Don't negotiate Pension Reform, just sit on it. Mayor tiny dancer will cave, because he wants the casino and gambling machines in all bars. He won't put them in place until there is pension reform. He want s the future revenues from gambling to go to his friends and constituients. Dean Angelo, don't negotiate Pension Reform, just sit on it.
Masters
Forget Dean Angelo. He is a sell out like all the rest right on down to Dineen. We are what, 8000 strong. All we need is half of us to stand up and stop this crap!! We do nothing to fight for ourselves.
Hey FOP get on board.......call out 9-digit on not waiting to pay the pension.....use his own words and actions to get him outed in the media. Where is this great leadership and the college professor who shouldn't need me to call him out to address the mayor..........FLIP FLOP FOP...same waste of time and money, just different faces. You stood on seeing the obvious and your tough guy attitude .....well where is it,? Dhaka is waiting to "possibly " pay at the last second like studying for a final. Well cram his own words down his throat......where is the presence of our bargaining unit now......Now...NOW do something g...say something...act like you give a crape about us active guys. I don't usually rant but I'm sick of the lack of attention to this subject by this fraternal order who proclaimed that they were on top of things ....yeah right...your on top Dean now get busy for the body of all.
>Pffft!<
It's apparent that 8000 Policemen (haven't quite yet) put the fear of Allmighty God and upright men in the elected officers of FOP...
These "gentlemen" should take it as an article of faith that stonewalling people who are at risk of having their lives and finances destroyed for the sake of naked, venal politics is a no go.
You can't "do nothing" as a "safe" course of action.
Rock and a hard place?
Devil and the deep blue sea?
Damned if you do or don't?
Shit or get off the pot?
Do tell... What is up with the none aggression pact with City Hall?
Do you "gentlemen" not realize that they're taking every possible opportunity to negotiate in the media?
What tangible benefit is there to FOP playing nice and not laying out that North Shore Shit-Ass for not just every outrage he's committed but for the blood he has on his hands for destroying CPD's ability to act as a check to the death, destruction, madness and nigh near cannibalism happening on the streets of this city?
There is NOTHING worth exploiting in this new urban tribalism as a useable/useful crisis unless it's emplyed as a lever to pry the last of hard earned treasure from the hands of what's left of the middle class taxpayer and give it over to the Wall Street bunch for a tidy life time renumeration to foul motherfuckers like Rahm.
Yeah... It looks like we've been sold.
When does the REAL fighting shooting start?
Fairly soon?
The notion that there are people just waiting to laugh up their sleeves when "you coppers lose EVERYTHING you've worked for" is pretty aggravating and the height of arrogance.
Who said this was ok?
Certainly not us.
Maybe our duly elected bargaining unit representation?
History is full of those who paid dearly for silence, inertia and seeming collusion during times of crisis.
The charade.
How long will it last if at all?
Just basing this on the years of watching many episodes of "The Shit Show" from the other side of a squad car windshield.
Are we wrong in this assessment?
Keep tuned kids. More to come.
Hey Rahmhole: "This is not like a final exam where you wait until the last hour of the last day to figure this out. I expect you to use this time to put in place (and pay into, like we have been doing) a (pension) system and the safety and security systems you need. … I don't expect you to use the time all the way to the end."
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