Chewie, Stop Spending Money
This program should have been killed at birth - paying people to watch their own kids. Now it's turning into yet another handout of money:
- Mayoral challenger Jesus “Chuy” Garcia joined the Chicago Teachers Union in a call for a $15 minimum wage for public schools employees and contractors on Wednesday, but did not say how the cash-strapped school district could pay for the expense.
[...] The teachers union said it would request language in a developing labor agreement that would require CPS to pay district workers and union members a minimum of $15 an hour. CTU Vice President Jesse Sharkey said the union believes a number of subcontracted workers, including employees hired to provide for the district’s Safe Passage program, do not make a $15 an hour.
The schools are broke. Last week, some bond restructuring might lead to the schools being on the hook for another $280 million or so. The well is dry. Stop.
And stop pandering Chewie - that's Rahm's schtick.
And stop pandering Chewie - that's Rahm's schtick.
Labels: money questions
posted by SCC at 12:31 AM
71 Comments:
This is one of the many reasons I'm not sure I can vote for Chewy.
Chuy will give a way the City. By Now, doesn't he understand we can't afford this? Guess not...not so good for a Hopeful mayor. Big Mistake...imagine what he will do in Office and wait till some of his supporters get in there.
You think Rahm has bankrupted the City, elect Chewie and Katy bar the bank door.
If a mama have to stay home from her high paying job to watch her babies, don't you think someone should pay her a little bit to make up for all the loot she not makin.
The more Chewey talks, the more he scares the hell out of the fence sitters. Rahm is going to win after this one.
Whatever. I fully retracted my vote for chuy when I heard him talk. He was more like able as a pre election nobody. Now he's showing his true colors are its not pretty. Can't we just not have a mayor for a few years?? Yeah I know, ok I guess rahm it is. Hope this casino stuff works out...
Karen Lewis convinced Mr. Garcia to take up the gauntlet and challenge Emanuel. We have to expect Garcia to go along with this stuff right now. He can't afford to alienate them before the election. After the election, he can tell them there really, truly, honest to God isn't enough money for it.
I don't care if Garcia walks naked across the North Avenue bridge between now and the election. I'm still voting for the guy who isn't Rahm.
And reports are CPS Teachers want more money...they are already paid very well. Chuy is Beholden to them in the first place (a.k.a. Karen Lewis)..can we imagine how much more he will go along with them if he makes mayor. The city is slowly drowning..don't push it by voting for him.
I agree SCC. Leave the pandering to Rahm..,.. he does enough of that for the both of them.
This city is in a financial death spiral. Politicians have been milking the city dry for years and the end is near. Not much left to steal. Two horrible choices for mayor. One too slick for his own good and the other who seems to be as dumb as a box of rocks.
No he will just tax the residents of the 41st and 45th wards more
What's new?
He's trying to buy a better job with our money. It is what they all do, just some are better at it than others.
Went in for early voting and was met by a gang of Machine guys at the door. Had to wait to vote, too. Rahm should be scared. The voters are not happy no matter how many slick commercials his brother puts out.
Get rid of Rahm while we can. If he stays another 4 years he is here for life. There is no national spot for him. This election has proved it already.
teachers and cps are screwed!
Talk about pandering! The mayor wants to change the name of O'Hare airport to Obama airport! That alone should cause even more people to want to vote the mutt out!!!
Besides the fact that we are broke we have to start saving for the billion dollar park we will build to honor the former Mayor Daley when he dies.
This city is screwed! Whether Tiny Dancer gets in or Chewie gets in, both are going to bleed this city dry pandering to the parasites of society. I am glad I am almost done. I can't wait to leave this county, maybe even the state.
why hasn't the fop (dean angelo) made public the results of the paper ballot votes to endorse or not endorse a mayoral candidate.THE EARLY VOTING HAS STARTED, AND THE FOP (DEAN ANGELO) has done nothing.what a shame, had such high hopes for this new FOP.
He has to pander. He's behind in the polls. He can break all promises after the election.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
If people make $15. Dollars an hour they won't need welfare money and no longer qualified. So if you do the math it makes perfect sence.
You save millions on public aide and people are making more money that leaves the burden to corporation and not the city nor the state.
"The well is dry. Stop." -- SCC
Get Chuy in office first. He can put the brakes on in a little while from there.
>grin<
"The ordinary people of Chicago are struggling. They do not need fifty more dog parks and one hundred miles of new 'skate ribbons' and a thousand new silly banners. They need food and housing, transportation and medical care and better emergency services. We are going to cut the fat and concentrate on these important things."
You can do it, guy.
And yet the people working the offices for the teacher's union,DO NOT get a pay raise. By Union rules, the support staff are not union and are not able to unionize as the union does not want to have to deal with the same tactics they, themselves employ during negotiations.
+++++ “They need to improve their wages so they can be better providers and take care of themselves so they can take better care of their families,” he ('Chuy') said. +++++
Gee, maybe they should have thought about that when they were young and stayed in school and got an education that MERITED a higher wage.
Oh. . . .and the boys didn't join a gang and think of a Felony & Prison Record as 'A Rite of Passage'. And the girls didn't think about getting pregnant at 15-16 years old -- which I'm pretty sure is still Statutory RAPE -- and having baby after baby by baby-daddy after baby-daddy, and expecting to live on fucking WELFARE the rest of your life!!
It's not Rocket Science Chuy, that just doing those little things will make someone a 'better provider' when they're an adult.
SCC, I know you guys are Chuy fans but what do you think you are going to get from a Karen Lewis type communist? He can promise anything you want to hear. This guy is going to be giving away the store. Driving business out of the city and state isn't going to help us come up with the cash we need to save our sinking ship. Yes, I hate Rham too but is he really the lesser of the two evils???
Wal-Mart just gave their part-time employees pay rate increase to $9.00 per hour effective June 2015 and next year 2016 their pay rate goes up again to $10.00 per hour! you want to baby-sit and live in Chicago for the prevailing hourly state or federal wage rate - I didn't think so!
Its putting money back in the hands to those people who are more likely to quickly spend it-consumer spending!
I already Voted for Jesus Garcia for Mayor and John Kozlar for 11th Ward Alderman!
Maybe the teachers can agree to take a paycut to make up the difference. Put up or shut up! That'll never happen-we have the most spoiled, entitled, paid the most for doing the least group of malcontents as CPS teachers. They don't get their way? Strike. Angry about pay? Strike. Get a huge fucking pay raise and then start almost immediately negotiating for another under the threat of a strike! Fucking annoying.you want the janitors to make $15/hour? You fucking pay for it!!
Besides the fact that we are broke we have to start saving for the billion dollar park we will build to honor the former Mayor Daley when he dies.
3/26/2015 07:26:00 AM
Make it a dog park so he can be pissed and s..t on.
you goofs are Emanuel Supports for one reason you have shallow reasoning skills! Hello its all about protecting the UNIONS! don't make this a right to work state-fool! this is not MEXICO where there are two levels: the haves and the have nots!
Look at The Millions spent and given to the 1% friends of the Daley(s) and Emanuel(s) this represents Business as Usual!
Your nuts!
Don't Support dis-unity!
Uniform! Union!
Vote for Jesus Garcia!
Rahm is a compulsive gambler with our tax dollars, blowing hundreds of millions investing (providing windfall profits) to investment bankers. Those high risk credit swaps are plummeting, then just like gamblers do, CPS has to cover the losses. Something like $260 million has come due. Rahm is the Babe Ruth of big spenders. He spends our tax revenue on his Wall St. friends. Paying working people $15 an hour would save the taxpayers money because they could support themselves instead of relying on government programs. No comparison.
Flaming Tutu has got to go...for those crying, "Chuy's gonna bleed the city dry!" - what do you think 9.5 has been doing for the last 4 years?
Anyone with an ounce of sense should know the Tiny Dancer has very sinister and dark ulterior motives.
Chuy might still be an evil, but damnit he's the lesser of two evils. Vote!!!
It's a fucking shame this is what Shitcago voters have to choose from. We are truely screwed.
The mayor (and his predecessor) have blown hundreds of millions of our tax dollars investing in high risk credit swaps and other risky financial investments which are now plummeting. Just like gamblers, the taxpayers are now on the hook to cover those losses. CPS has to cover to the tune of $268 mil in this latest financial crisis. Go to this site: www.bondbuyer.com and enter in the search engine "CPS bonds" and read all about it. Hundreds of millions of dollars blown: providing huge profits for the investment bankers. If you read the first article posted on bondbuyer (about CPS bonds) you'll see towards the end of the article that of course the mayor's friends, his bankers blame this crisis not on their reckless gambling but on pension liability. This is what this mayor and his investment bankers are planning. Gamble all the revenue away, then blame it on anybody with a government pension.
If Rahm is re elected he will rename the airport after President Obama. Chewie will never do that. Having our airport named after a historic and great president will help to bring more business and travelers to Chichago.
U guys are voting for chuy just b/c he's "not rahm." U don't even care about his background (supposed strong gang ties in family, protests against the police, etc). Rahm is not ideal, and not even good, BUT he is still way better than chuy. Chuy will absolutely give the city away. I do not like rahm, but I will give him credit. He made a hugely unpopular decision to close a bunch of underenrolled and underperforming schools saving the city a lot of money. Do you think for a second chuy would have the balls to do that? if rahm would just shore up the pension now, I'd vote for him every 4 years.
Ask yourself some simple questions, has anything gotten better under Rahm Emanuel? Pensions no, Debt no, crime no, schools no, neighborhoods no, fines yes, fees yes, and all while having access to federal dollars and the POTUS. The one thing we know is certain, he's sold off the city's debt to hedge fund friends who'll make millions and when his done he will walk away as Daley did and leave us even worse. People have to understand that people with more money in their pockets will allow people to spend, bring up the economy and require less help and assistance. Fix the neighborhoods and make them vibrant will improve the condition of the ill effects affecting this great city.. Something Rahm has no understanding of, because his been a privileged child all his life...!
stop welfare fraud , print , photo , dna sample every applicant, once arrested for a felony they lose benefits .
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Talk about pandering! The mayor wants to change the name of O'Hare airport to Obama airport! That alone should cause even more people to want to vote the mutt out!!!
3/26/2015 06:27:00 AM
This is a joke, right?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Besides the fact that we are broke we have to start saving for the billion dollar park we will build to honor the former Mayor Daley when he dies.
3/26/2015 07:26:00 AM
Emanuel announced yesterday he wants to spend another couple hundred million (he's a got a money tree in the basement) to put an elevated park and bike trail through Englewood, like the 606 Bloomingdale Trail thing. They can name THAT after Daley or Obama. They can hyphenate it and name it after BOTH of 'em.
They all pander. I'm still voting for Chuy - get Rahm out of there.
Over 3 million people in Chicago and this is the best candidates we can come up with..... Unbelievable!
Let's start a write in campaign for...... SCC!!!!
Vote for this guy on police issues only! The other shit is stupid. Protect our pensions.
Today's Detroit News documents Detroit Public School's are in terrible shape financially. Take a look at the future. Let Chewie jack up the teacher's pay. It will just bring on bankruptcy sooner. Then the judge can declare are labor contracts void and set wages at a level that is reasonable. If the IL Supreme court rules the pension payments have to made, the judge will have to lower the teachers wages more.
As for janitors, last time I heard, they all were contract employees working for Magic Johnson's Sedexo/Magic Company. Their wages are between Magic and the janitors, not the city. Of course the bankruptcy judge will toss that contract out the day after CPS files for bankruptcy.
According to the census Illinois lost more residents (9981) between July 2013 and July 2014 than any other state.
Keep your eyes on the ball.
Chuy will be a weak mayor who will be forced to at least listen to people and compromise on occasion.
He will also have a factionalized city council.
That sounds like democracy to me.
Re-elect Rahm and you get a full force corporate ass fucking coming your way.
rahm forced all companies with city contracts to pay their employees $13 an hour
he is very generous with tax payer money , the companies add cost to the city bill
did he ever collect money $20,000,000 for past due water bills , if not why not
"Emanuel announced yesterday he wants to spend another couple hundred million (he's a got a money tree in the basement) to put an elevated park and bike trail through Englewood, like the 606 Bloomingdale Trail thing."
3/26/2015 11:04:00 AM
Oh, for the love of...
A. Could this have anything to do with the rapidly approaching runoff?
B. Going to hire more police, enough to man posts, each within sight of the other, all along the trail? That's the only way to actually make that trail usable. Illinois Prairie Path, along the old Chicago Great Western right-of-way, is great too -- except when traversing Maywood.
"Couple hundred million" would pay for a lot of things that actually matter...
This guy has got to go.
Jesus Chuy Garcia suggests a city run lottery for pensions , sounds like a winner , look at all the visitors , airport , festivals ,= city residents
lot of revenue collected for pensions and other pet projects
better than a real estate tax that is on the way in 2016
I heard Chuy on the news today stating he would consider keeping our current Superintendent. Between that statement and his support of CAPS he's losing me. The problem is that I don't fully support either candidate in the mayor's race. Maybe I'll just vote for both and spoil my ballot.
Anonymous said...
No he will just tax the residents of the 41st and 45th wards more
Whew! I'm glad the boundaries were changed and I'm now in the 39th Ward
Remember,
Maggie Daley park
De paul sports arena
Red light and Speed cameras
shut down police areas
Tons of overtime for VRI
who is paying for all of this?
We are.
anyone but 9.5
how many millions would be saved if Chicago was not a sanctuary city ?
if choo choo chewy doesn't deliver than we vote him out in 4 years , give the home grown boy Southsider from St Rita a chance
do you all think that new trier ballerina cares about chitown
just the sweetheart contracts for the 1% wealthy that we have all been warned about every election
daley , bilandc,byrne,washington all home grown street kids give chuy a chance
Anonymous Anonymous said...
U guys are voting for chuy just b/c he's "not rahm." U don't even care about his background (supposed strong gang ties in family, protests against the police, etc). Rahm is not ideal, and not even good, BUT he is still way better than chuy. Chuy will absolutely give the city away. I do not like rahm, but I will give him credit. He made a hugely unpopular decision to close a bunch of underenrolled and underperforming schools saving the city a lot of money. Do you think for a second chuy would have the balls to do that? if rahm would just shore up the pension now, I'd vote for him every 4 years.
3/26/2015 10:40:00 AM
Yeah, let's close schools without regard for the de facto gang territory and control over so many Chicago neighborhoods. By closing those schools to supposedly save money, now SPEND millions of dollars for nonsense 'safe passage' signs and nonsense 'safe passage' workers. And continue to SPEND millions to keep those buildings warm, secure and maintain them.
So, zero savings, much upheaval, and no true benefit. Genius move on Rahm's part.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Talk about pandering! The mayor wants to change the name of O'Hare airport to Obama airport! That alone should cause even more people to want to vote the mutt out!!!
3/26/2015 06:27:00 AM
Heard this on the news tonight.
Does non-Chicagoan Emanuel have ANY clue of the importance of each of those airport names? My dad heard it, too, and as a WWII veteran, he was incensed at the thought of overwriting those very significant airport names.
What a low and disgusting thing, to try to buy the black community's votes by claiming to name either airport after Obama and conveniently ignoring the heroes of war those airport names represent.
Don't worry Rauner is slicing and dicing funds that were marked for safe passage. They be asking to take it out of the welfare benefits.
Next week, when I release my video of Rahm and former D.C. mayor Marion Barry taking a hit off of the crack pipe....
well basically that'll seal the Black vote for Rahm. Maybe I'll just keep that video under wraps until my next bad CR#.
GO CHUY!
Anonymous said:
"If Rahm is re elected he will rename the airport after President Obama. Chewie will never do that. Having our airport named after a historic and great president will help to bring more business and travelers to Chichago."
Okay then, I'll vote for Chewie.
Chuy doesn't pander? HA! He's been pandering to the poor and stupid this whole time!
Use Tiff funds for schools, police, pot hole repair, sign repair, and to hire more police. Is that really so difficult?
Anonymous said...
If Rahm is re elected he will rename the airport after President Obama. Chewie will never do that. Having our airport named after a historic and great president will help to bring more business and travelers to Chichago.
3/26/2015 10:37:00 AM
Too late. Washington DC already named the airport after Reagan, the only historic and great president born in Illinois.
Let Hawaii have the honor (cough cough) of naming their airport after Obama.
Ok ....quickly.
Rahm is a crooked devil.
Chuy is a retarded teleprompter reader.
Most of these posts, are by trolling baiters.
Prince Valium
Anonymous Anonymous said...
If people make $15. Dollars an hour they won't need welfare money and no longer qualified. So if you do the math it makes perfect sence.
You save millions on public aide and people are making more money that leaves the burden to corporation and not the city nor the state.
3/26/2015 07:52:00 AM
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Another CPS graduate chimes in on a matter he knows nothing about, economics.
The price of your Big Mac will go up, the price of gas will go up, groceries will go up, water bill will go up, any business that has an employee will raise their prices BECAUSE the wages ACROSS the board will go up. Some businesses will cease to exist, some will move elsewhere and then, your delusion of all these well paid employees not needing government subsidies will die. Don't you dummies realize that the government DOESN'T create wealth? Everything you buy will cost more. Boy, that really worked out well, didn't it?
Next, you will say, TAX THE 1% MORE! They don't have all that money because they are all stupid. They are rich because they are smart or have smart advisers and can relocate to Florida to escape high taxes. I can tell you who is going to get a new tax. We are, when we retire. If you move out of state, they Illinois politicians are going to say that if you leave, you have to pay income taxes here BECAUSE your money came from HERE. If I'm not mistaken, California does this.
This happened 3-27-15. I couldn't take a pic or video with my phone because when I slowed down my vehicle and went around the block. I think at that point this guy knew he was MADE. Here's my true story: It was just after 2am. I was driving south on Nagle just before I-90 by Bryn Mawr. I saw a guy wearing all black (hoodie/black pants etc...) He was white. I seen him pulling and collecting Chuy signs from the yards of the homes along that street. Had to have about 10-15 signs under his arm. There was a dark colored sedan driving very slowly curbside next to him. Like I said. I went around the block hoping to get some pics or footage and they were gone. I drive down that street all the time. For the last month literally every yard had CHUY signs. Now there is nothing but Rham signs. Hmmmm.
These people that are clamoring for $15/hr should be careful what you wish for. You may get it and not like it.
#1: It may push you into a higher income bracket and you lose you Earned Income Credit and other handouts.
#2: You will have to work much harder as the number of employees will probably be reduced. Fewer people doing the same work.
#3: As there will probably be more people seeking employment at the higher wage, your employer will find it easier to replace you and will be less tolerant of slackiness. Employer may tolerate some BS at $8/hr. But not at $15.
When you live in such a clout-heavy environment, your sense of reasoning gets numbed.
Time to wake up out of your comas and THINK.
You DON'T reward arrogance and incompetence. Rahm should not get ANY of your votes.
Vote for Chuy and if he fucks up - vote him out in 4 years. SIMPLE.
If you did that in the last 20-24 years, you wouldn't be so worried about your pensions.
WAKE UP!
If you can't wake up, accept the fact that you have been mentally castrated over the years and cast your vote like a dickless lemming and STFU when it comes to complaining about your job, your taxes, and your lot in life.
Rahm looks too much like the Grinch to ever be trusted. He'd even take the last remaining crumb from a mouse.
Anonymous said...
U guys are voting for chuy just b/c he's "not rahm." U don't even care about his background (supposed strong gang ties in family, protests against the police, etc). Rahm is not ideal, and not even good, BUT he is still way better than chuy. Chuy will absolutely give the city away. I do not like rahm, but I will give him credit. He made a hugely unpopular decision to close a bunch of underenrolled and underperforming schools saving the city a lot of money. Do you think for a second chuy would have the balls to do that? if rahm would just shore up the pension now, I'd vote for him every 4 years.
That's the problem. He doesn't want to shore up our pensions. He wants to fuck us, and the constitution---he's above such people and documents. The politicians underfunded the pensions and misspent...but lets blame it on the Police. Use the "Crisis" to tell uninformed people their property taxes will go up 150% or some other astronomic bullshit number. I'll give Chuy 4 years and if i don't like his regime i'll vote him out. Like a previous poster said if we give Rahm four more years---it will be his job for thirty years. Not winning outright should've been a wake up call...instead he becomes even more of an asshole and says he's not going to change his ways. Might not be his decision, now.
Karen Lewis is not qualified to be mayor of this city or any other city. The people complaining about closed schools are too stupid to tell anyone what to do. These people had Collins High School built on the west side because they said Harrison High School was too far away...this only because CTA cut service on Douglas and a few other routes because people relocated because of the violence. Harrison was a much better school and a technical high school but, because of low attendance this excellent school was closed and mediocre Collins is here and they have been trying to close this school, too. If I was mayor, I would ignore much of what these idiots demand too.
Anonymous said...
Keep your eyes on the ball.
Chuy will be a weak mayor who will be forced to at least listen to people and compromise on occasion.
He will also have a factionalized city council.
That sounds like democracy to me.
Re-elect Rahm and you get a full force corporate ass fucking coming your way.
3/26/2015 01:25:00 PM
Bingo!! Right on the money.
The mayor and the city council need to be at odds.
No more of the rubber stamp city council!
41 vote Napolitano, 45 vote Garrido. We need to build on CFD and CPD in the city council, that will vote in support of the pensions and insurance. We have a friend in 38 with Sposato.
This happened 3-27-15. I couldn't take a pic or video with my phone because when I slowed down my vehicle and went around the block. I think at that point this guy knew he was MADE. Here's my true story: It was just after 2am. I was driving south on Nagle just before I-90 by Bryn Mawr. I saw a guy wearing all black (hoodie/black pants etc...) He was white. I seen him pulling and collecting Chuy signs from the yards of the homes along that street. Had to have about 10-15 signs under his arm. There was a dark colored sedan driving very slowly curbside next to him. Like I said. I went around the block hoping to get some pics or footage and they were gone. I drive down that street all the time. For the last month literally every yard had CHUY signs. Now there is nothing but Rham signs. Hmmmm.
This happened 3/27/2015 around 330AM I was driving around Bryn Mawr and Nagle and I noticed no Chuy signs in the yards so I became suspicious and after driving around the block to investigate and when I returned I noticed a black guy dressed in white with a mask on carrying a hammer and Rahm signs and all the yards had Rahm signs in them. He must have made me and fled I tried taking a video but it was to dark. Hmmmmm
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