No Penalties Again
- The Chicago Public Library system plans to eliminate late fees starting Oct. 1. — making Chicago the largest city in the nation to adopt the growing trend.
Not only will the move do away with late fees going forward, it will also erase all outstanding overdue fees currently owed to the city.
“I think our staff members are going to be practically jumping over their circulation desks to tell people that fines have been eliminated,” Chicago Public Library Commissioner Andrea Telli said.
“We’re removing one of the most important barriers to access,” she said.
Except when there are no fines to compel people to return books, exactly what is left for others to access? Empty shelves?
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
118 Comments:
Bookman the library cop was right all along
It's like a bookstore. Only cheaper!!
Coincidentally, the budget to buy new books has just increased!!!!
She’s beyond stupid.
If the majority of people breaking the rules are minorities, the rules are biased, unjust and need to be changed. New rules (for radicals), you better get used to it.
SJW clown mayor groot dimms utopia ,, no sticker fines,no library fines , red light fines,free money for illegals ,$100 million for the community ...except city revenue patroling in 08, at 12.00 am, during weekdays , booting cars, where they can't be freed until late morning .....next day ,,,, who is going to pay for this crap? to buy libraly books ,that will never be returned by the community
Karl Marx Library
Hey, it's only money
And (no revenue stream required) permanent legacy
library jobs. We decided to go cashless to remove any
temptation. Also new signage: This Library Carries NO Cash
Or Valuables. Employees have been instructed not to
interfere with book theft or chase actors. If requested,
employees are to assist with bulk transfer of reading
materials to vehicles of patrons.
Rules are for taxpayers, not people of the vibrant, rich blue Peoples Republik Of Chicago. If you don't like it, move! Planning on it there, sparky. If I never see another democrat, progressive, SJW, minority bigot, wearing their racism on their sleeve like a badge of honor, screeching, man hating woman, progressive, communist or socialist, it'll be too soon.
Progressive Democrats are destroying America.
I wonder if there are any valuable books that I can borrow ? These people are so friggin stupid. Seems there is NO consequences for anything these days. Except for regular joe.
This is great! I think I owe a couple of bucks! Now I can go checkout Barack Obama's book that he got a $65 million dollar advance for. If he ever gets it done....
Think of it this way: it is way easier to Burn books when there is less of them.
So now there will never be any pop-up books available... What's Ritchie Daley gonna do?
Library took in over $820k in fines last year and now Lightfoot does this?
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Are any kids reading anything?
Don’t Bundy that book!
Chicago will now run the countries first honor system for a public library. Thank god we have excess money to eliminate fines. HALLELUJAH!!!!
Ha!
I took out a book in 1971 and never returned it! It was called "Tropic of Cancer".
In the ruins of Detroit, Michigan, a formerly great metropolis, numerous public libraries were shut down as the local government was bankrupt. The doors were locked, but the buildings remained since Detroit lacked sufficient funds to transfer the library holdings and demolish the buildings.
While some of the abandoned buildings were vandalized in terms of chairs and tables being overturned, walls defaced by graffiti, and garbage thrown about, almost all of the books remained shelved and untouched. The vandals had no interest in reading or stealing books.
So, free books then?
Children, let me tell you a time waaaaay back, before the Great Famine and even before the Great War, when people would be held accountable for their actions. It was a gentile time, where ALL people knew they had to act civilized and follow Laws, Rules and Regulations.. I realize it sounds far-fetched, but there were actual penalties for physical misdeeds, but people could think any way they liked without fear of repercussions from Thought Police.
We could even write things without fear of reprisal. We wouldn't worry about someone going back decades to find some word or joke we commonly used to be distorted into something nefarious and Evil. They were the Good 'ole Days, before the social Justice Warriors got ahold of every damn thing and ruined it.
This is an important life lesson for "the community" that they are taught in all other aspects of their lives by the Socialists. That lesson is that there are no consequences for wrongdoings or shotcoming by members of "the community." They are eternal victims .
I bet if a police officer did this somehow we would be held accountable.
Have your kids take books out and don’t return them, see what happens!
When I go into these dumbs on disturbances, I see many books thrown in
piles all over the floors. Lol—you know who pays for the books ...you and
I.
How much in overdue fines were wiped out? How can a broke city afford to give away anything?
Spokesmen for Amazon and eBay announce they are happy to sell the entries inventory of CPL books which are stolen by the community and then listed online.
With no fines, check out as many books as you want and just sell them. Theft by conversion (or just plain old theft!) but hey - no fines means profits for the community!
SELL THAT STOLEN GOVERNMENT PROPERTY! Brand new titles which have an MSRP of $25 Amazon will sell new for $16. The community however can get the book free from the CPL and sell it fore a mere $10! Prices are falling fast thanks to stolen inventory for sale!
“I think our staff members are going to be practically jumping over their circulation desks to tell people that fines have been eliminated,” Chicago Public Library Commissioner Andrea Telli said.
Why? Libraries used to be a place of LEARNING. The only learning occurring now is that you can break the rules and poverty pimps and SJW government officials will cover the misconduct for you. That is a bad outcome fully!
Groot, don't you fucking DARE say the city needs money and raise my taxes one penny when you are willfully leaving $500k to $1 million in valid fines uncollected.
A homeowner does not pay all which is owed on his tax bills. Fines and interest accumulate which will not be excused.
Couumunity member checks out library books and sells them or keeps them forever. No fines nor interest on the damage occurring by this taking of property, without excuse.
Well... car2go = CPL To Come!
Way to remove accountability from the community, shitheads!
Where have I heard this before:
“underestimated the investment and resources that are truly necessary to make our service successful in these complex transportation markets amid a quickly changing mobility landscape.”
OH! Now the CPL..
“underestimated the investment and resources that are truly necessary to make our service successful in these complex FREE SHIT TO THE COMMUNITY markets amid a quickly changing LITERARY landscape.”
Except when there are no fines to compel people to return books, exactly what is left for others to access? Empty shelves?
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I'm surprised that the city/govt hasn't offered the undeserved communities money to just walk into a library, much less crack open a book, think of what kind of future that could hold...
How can Chicago afford all this free stuff?
Free passes to any here in Chicago illegally who might otherwise run afoul of ICE?
Free books for the community?
Free dropping of 16 counts of faking a hate crime for a Hollywood actor?
Free alligators in a city lagoon?
Free gift of being sexual assaulted or robbed included with riding CTA trains for females?
Free regular gunfire on most streets in the 'underprivileged' areas of the city?
Chicago is the land of the free!
Socialism at its finest. No accountability or responsibility. The continuation of the democratic party keeping voters dependent and stupid.
Damn, I’m getting a library card and a shopping cart in the morning. This is even better than Half Priced Books!
Fucking liberals! Fucking Democrats! Of course they are going to make excuses to not enforce rules! Cowards!
Liberals are crazy and think different then healthy persons do. That is not an opinion but is demonstrable.
I can show this with data:
Strong liberals say the top causes of poverty are discrimination (51%), an unfair economic system (48%), and lack of educational opportunities (48%)
CONTRAST~
Strong conservatives say the top causes of poverty are poor life choices (60%), a lack of work ethic (52%), breakdown of families (47%), and drugs and alcohol (47%)
Strong liberals say the top reasons for people’s wealth: family connections (48%), inheritance (40%), and getting lucky (31%)
CONTRAST~
Strong conservatives say top reasons for people’s wealth: hard work (62%), ambition (47%), self-discipline (45%)
Source:
https://www.cato.org/blog/poll-what-americans-think-cause-wealth-poverty
Fucking Chicago Democrats!
Oh no! Where's the money going to come from for Dragqueen Storytime? I guess they'll take have to take a bigger chunk out of our property taxes to provide needy children in Englewood and Roseland access to mentally ill adult men who believe they are women. God knows they don't have enough of that in their hoods.
Bookman the Library Cop has left the building.
Free books yaaaaa!
.... said no one ever.
Dude doesn’t read anyways. If he did, he might learn something, like he’s the reason this place is a crime ridden third world shithole, and that working hard (shit, let’s just settle for working), feeding your family without link, being happy and respectful, and struggling like the rest of us is an honorable, American dream. The things you can find in books. Fuck it, dude, put down the brand new iPhone selfie bullshit(courtesy of us working people), go to the fucking library, get as many books as you can and keep them. Just read them.
Does anyone think GROOT is way over her head?
She has a hiring FREEZE and yet hires LOSER JOHN ARENA
She cancelling out back fines for parking and suspended licenses for dead beats
And now the lowly book fines??? How much does the library make on these vicious fines?
IM thinking LIGHTGROOT gonna need another vaction paid for by SAM ZELL again.
ON another matter beware of any conflicts with GROOT her people run LEXIS NEXIS on many of the exempts to find out who they actually live with and who they are married too!
Spent $964.65 on June 18, 2019 LexisNexis Software
keep n swiping
Go to the Library and get a "Free" take home book!!! Whats the Library going to do every time someone does not return a book?? Call 311 and file a theft report?
Lets get real, this move is to relieve some of the incompetence on the part of library administration in regards to having books returned. If you stop and take a look at this in its entirety, its a throw in the towel moment for them, not some benevolent act towards those Chicagoans with a library card.
They did that where I live, in civilized country outside of Illinois. If you haven't returned a book, you can't take out another one--but that's the only deterrent.
The library in the suburb in which I currently reside initiated the same policy a few years ago. Items in which I’m interested have been found to be overdue after being checked out by other patrons. I’ve complained to the staff only to be told that once an item is overdue by a certain number of weeks the patron is sent a notice advising them they will be billed for the item if not returned.
As I tried to explain to them if you eliminate sanctions for keeping items past the due date there is no reason for the items to be returned on time.
This policy is a disaster! But there’s no convincing the library director or board of trustees that this is a mistake.
Retired Ol’ Sixgun Sarge
Poor, disadvantaged at risk population are all Dog Whistles for people of color. This is just another community vote getting ploy. But there could be another thing at play. Possibly a trick to a substantial increase in the mill levy going to the libraries. Hidden tax increase that she feels most will not bitch about. Most community libraries have become winter warming centers and summer cooling centers. The homeless stench at the downtown library will overwhelm you.
I gonna take out this new bestseller - I don’t care if it takes me a year to read it and others are waiting - ya’know, Ima just gonna keep this here book!
“Barrier to access!” WTF? Someone has the willingness to get to library to check out a book, cd, or video, but a lack of willingness to return borrowed material now is a barrier to access. CPL will rue the day they did this.
Library will become a homeless shelter. No books, plenty of space. Honor system for returning books in this theives rule society. Lmao and smh
The public debt maybe the second biggest lie in history.
Barriers to access. Wow the language they use. Guess police are barriers to access as well. All rules are. Why pay for anything. property taxes are a barrier to access to my house.
Give it 5 years and libraries will be empty and then forced to lease the building to a dollar store or similar
Groot's husband/wife/spouse/partner is a librarian. Guess who may have come up with this liberal balderdash idea?
An actual comment by Groot "By doing this, we will see a reduction in past due fees." Genius level stuff...
And the taxpayers will pay to replace the books that aren’t returned. Just another regressive tax on people who follow the rules and a handout to those who don’t.
Let’s wait a year and see how many books are actually returned, or will it be another bill for taxpayers to bail out the libraries. That Lighthead should have it come out of her salary.
Exactly how is charging late fees creating “a barrier to access” a library? Late fees are an incentive to bring the library materials back in a timely fashion. Perhaps the library employees will be “jumping over the circulation desks” once the fees are gone because they are sick of being abused by “the communitay” when they try to collect them. Or maybe they are sick of having to shelve books, putting them away when people return them. If there is no penalty when you don’t return library materials, a large number of people just won’t. In fact, why don’t they just stop requiring people to check out books, etc. Why not allow people to scan their own books in and out without identifying who is taking the materials? That way the library knows what is going in and out, but not who to charge when the books, etc., don’t come back.
Well how many books were actually being checked out.
The mayor has no penalties for this, this So-called aldergoof is supposed to be fighting for the rights of the taxpayers her constituents but instead she went against the taxpayers used vulgarity spoke out against the city of Chicago and the mayor is going to do nothing about that because the mayor like her is just another social justice warrior! Could you imagine if a hard-working Chicago police officer made a comment like that could you imagine what would’ve happened they would’ve been suspended pending termination the mayor would’ve been all over television waving her finger about how bad the police officer was, the media would be all over this covering the story putting this woman did this another embarrassment to the taxpayers in the citizens of the city of Chicago.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2019/10/1/20894097/mayor-lori-lightfoot-wont-punish-susan-sadlowski-garza-profanity-ctu-rally-advocating-strike
No worries!!! The taxpayers will just keeping buying more to fill those empty shelves!!! It’s all good.
I guess you just gotta trust. Yea right.
Reading Rainbow (TV Show Intro)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZj7_ZWohoA
Lets be complete: Reading and education is imparts is one the best ways to get the community to quit being shitheads and improve their own lives and neighborhoods.
By removing fines, this will hurt the Public Library system of Chicago and make it so long term, there will be fewer options to read useful content available to the community. It is folly on many fronts.
Groot hurts the community by this policy of ending fines. This surrender of valid revenue also hurts the city treasury and teaches that is it okay to break the rules since no consequences will result.
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST!
“We’re removing one of the most important barriers to access,” she said.
Also happens to be one of the most important barriers to keep people (or folks) from STEALING THE BOOKS.
This city loves to reward bad behavior.
Sounds like FREE BOOKS to me!
Time to load up & never bring them back.
I’m suing...I want my $1.20 in late fees returned lol wtf
It’s not even bizarro world. I don’t even know what to call it anymore.
Once again, no consequences for bad behavior. That means the bad behavior will repeat and increase. Duh!
Library fines are the reason people don't have "access" to the library?
I got blocked last time by the junkies and bums nodding off on the floor.
Rahm used to pander to “the community”....Groot takes it to a whole new level.
She’s clearly “the community’s” mayor and doesn’t care about the middle class who’s saddled with paying the bill for everything.
Didn't you know???!!!
It's racist to charge library fees!
'NO CONSEQUENCES'
Typical liberal thought process
Saul Alinsky would be proud. His rules are taking root very nicely. Keep electing multicultural radicals. ♠️
I know this post is about library fines, but any city resident that buys a vehicle sticker next year is a fool.
who reads books in the community???? if they had free rentals of tablets and phones, thats another story.
"We’re removing one of the most important barriers to access" The only barriers to access are the people themselves. People who don't bother returning books also don't bother reading them. You can let them keep all the books they want, but it won't do them any good.
No reason to return the books to the Library for the dishonest. No books means further dumbing down of Chicago. We will still have the elctronic versions of books, which are much simpler to edit, restrict, delete. Communist Paradise to control such a valuable resource of the People, who paid for those books and buildings. No vote of the paying Public, just decree from the Tyrant on 5.
Pace is accelerating for thise in denial. We mocked USSR bread lines and harsh North Korea, but here we go. Might as well sell the library buildings to developers.
Check eBay for the books available to purchase in the next few days. Hurry because the best ones will go fast or place your order now.
So just sitting here doing math and the breaking news looks like the teachers will strike so just some simple calculation here teachers work 165 days a year this includes all vacations during summer,clean up week (spring break),weekends off, 2 weeks at Christmas,not counting the other holidays 1/2 days etc.
They are saying with the new contract which was extremely generous (dam the taxpayers),will bring the teachers average pay to $100,000.
lets divide this up 8 hours a day is $606.00 a day in pay divided by 8 (if they actually work that much tada $75.75 per hour + benefits which pushes that figure to over you ready $100.00 Per HOUR! OK sjw teachers tell us again how hard that job is! Tell the police who work so hard trying to keep the peace all we see tell us how you deserve this outrageous salary! Oh yea tell us how hard you work at home!
I wonder if everyone will receive a participation trophy just for returning their books.
newberry library has some rare stuff. go help yourself.
Now that I am a suburbanite, and with a local library card, I can still access books from the Chicago library. When you have your library access, on line, the books in the Chicago library, you will find that a lot of books are " missing".
Anmesty is a nice word for chaos. Destroy the Library system to control information, control History lessons painfully learned.
Amnesty for the selfish pricks who park anywhere, lowering the standard of life for the civilized residents. Bus zone, Snow Zone, Fire zone, loading zone, handicap spots are fair game.
Amnesty for the illegals -whoopps,now against the Law to call them that- for the unwelcome invaders.
Amnesty is paving the way for release of prisoners. Hordes of Orcs turned lose into the streets will have the last remaining residents clamoring for help. Overload the system, decrease morale, raise taxes.
The community doesn’t know how to read let alone figure out how to sign out a book.
Abolition of standards.
So, bendy rules and amnesty for city sticker scofflaws. No water shut-offs for not paying your bill. Now no fines and automatic renewals for library materials, not just books, people fail to return so others can use them.
And people wonder why there's such a lack of personal responsibility these days.
I have a bookcase at my place that I've been planning on filling up with cool old books. Looks like I can stop wasting my time browsing used book stores. You can't beat free books.
You been to a Chicago library lately? Nobody is reading books. Everyone is on the computers or taking advantage of free internet. Every Sunday when I'd check to make sure the doors were locked there would be the same guy sitting on the closed library steps taking advantage of the free wifi. They'll probably be stealing CD's, DVD's, and BluRay's if anything.
“Anonymous said...
Damn, I’m getting a library card and a shopping cart in the morning. This is even better than Half Priced Books!”
Why would you need a library card?
If a id can’t be required to vote, because it’s racist why is a library card ok?
They are simply taking another page from the San Franshitco, CA playbook. A quote from their website, "The Library will clear all outstanding overdue fines from all patron records. No exceptions, no questions. You are fabulously fine free"! More from the site, "The San Francisco Public Library was a pioneer in the fine free library movement. SFPL eliminated fines for children and teens in 1974". You see they did a study and stressed the "positive outcomes". (1) Increase patron access to materials and services, (2) Reduce the inequitable impact of overdue fines, (3) Improve patron relationships with their library, (4) Optimize library staff time and increase staff efficiency. And lastly they concluded that "overdue fines do not ensure borrowed materials end up back on shelves". What a load of tripe. I remember Beaver Clever stressing over losing a library book back in the day, things have certainly changed. Now the Bev would be fabulously fine and accountability Free! And he could borrow for keeps or lose as many as he likes.
A library without books is like a city without morals. Chicago.
Oh, by the way, Hey Jackass! says Chicago is batting 400 as of today. Way to go!
Need to wave requirements for drivers license and car insurance. That is to restrictive, preventing people from reaching their full potential.
good way to stockup on dvd movies for your personal library. movie night every night
Is there a timeline on when an overdue book becomes a lost book?
The barrier to access is the irresponsible not bringing the book back on time. If you keep it and there is no penalty for you, I can never check it out. THAT is the barrier to access.
The comments are brilliant, both the comic and the serious. They're trying to kill us off, and they're too stupid to realize we taxpayers are the golden goose.
Who needs books...every thing is on the internet in today's world!
This is really nothing new. Rumor has it (along with a few others, uhumm...), that Harold Washington's garage had stacks of overdue and unreturned books as high as the ceiling. Certainly never did him any harm - where do you think Harold's burgeoning vocabulary came from?
Exactly how is charging late fees creating “a barrier to access” a library? Late fees are an incentive to bring the library materials back in a timely fashion. Perhaps the library employees will be “jumping over the circulation desks” once the fees are gone because they are sick of being abused by “the communitay” when they try to collect them. Or maybe they are sick of having to shelve books, putting them away when people return them. If there is no penalty when you don’t return library materials, a large number of people just won’t. In fact, why don’t they just stop requiring people to check out books, etc. Why not allow people to scan their own books in and out without identifying who is taking the materials? That way the library knows what is going in and out, but not who to charge when the books, etc., don’t come back.
10/02/2019 06:44:00 AM
Oh no! You misunderstand the new program! WE WILL STILL BE PAYING FEES, so CPL need to keep our name on file. Glad I could clear that up.
Not to mention the dog CPS teachers who will be creating their classroom libraries from unreturned CPL books.
And then there we4e no books. Wiyh no books we do not need any librians, sorry. No books no librarians no need for library building. Andrew Carnegie would be so proud. His building now all community warming and cooling centers? There you have the future of the once proud Chicargo library system.
Librayou books.. we don't need no stinking library books.
actually divide by 6 hours. This the hours worked per at CPS.
$100,000 for 10 months of work
Every time I’m thinking I should stay here after retirement, they do shit like this. Goddamn I hate it here.
I’m creating a new a new eBay website! It’s called “Really Cheap Chicago Books” where members of the community can sell excess books in their house that they are no longer reading. It will be a win win for all! Community members can take the new cash from selling their books online and reinvest it in the community. Maybe create businesses and new jobs that pay the new minimum wage of $15. It’s so easy to create jobs and pay everyone the gov’t required rate - Bernie says it’s so easy! I ♥️ Chicago!
So just sitting here doing math and the breaking news looks like the teachers will strike so just some simple calculation here teachers work 165 days a year this includes all vacations during summer,clean up week (spring break),weekends off, 2 weeks at Christmas,not counting the other holidays 1/2 days etc.
They are saying with the new contract which was extremely generous (dam the taxpayers),will bring the teachers average pay to $100,000.
lets divide this up 8 hours a day is $606.00 a day in pay divided by 8 (if they actually work that much tada $75.75 per hour + benefits which pushes that figure to over you ready $100.00 Per HOUR! OK sjw teachers tell us again how hard that job is! Tell the police who work so hard trying to keep the peace all we see tell us how you deserve this outrageous salary! Oh yea tell us how hard you work at home!
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Next police negotiated contract should limit workdays to 165 a year too! Police make about the same as teachers plus putting your life on the line is stressful and exhausting so 165 days sounds fair.
Let me guess - Groot’s friend or maybe an Alder-creature’s friend will now open a new business to replace all “never returned” books at a nice healthy markup of 150%. Sweet new business idea! Who said that gov’t doesn’t create jobs.
Suburban library system that I use does this. If a book is requested by someone else you have to return it or your account gets frozen. If you keep it for a ridiculous amount of time past due they declare it lost and you get charged the price of the book. It seems to work pretty well. I pay attention because I don’t want my account turned off. The eight year old would kill me. People who don’t use libraries are speaking without any knowledge about the subject , just trying to make a controversy over something that’s not controversial. “Libraries make books free! News at 11.”
Removing fines is a great policy. Harold Washington always returned books.
Don't return a library book - no penalty.
Don't buy a city sticker on time - no penalty.
Don't pay a water bill-no penalty.
Don't pay parkers - no penalty.
Drink booze, smoke weed, piss on the street - no penalty.
And you wonder why this shitty city is $900 million in the hole?
Anonymous is right, many systems country-wide have moved to this format and it has had many positive impacts, it works.
Did I miss something here? Why do we need a library card?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Suburban library system that I use does this. If a book is requested by someone else you have to return it or your account gets frozen. If you keep it for a ridiculous amount of time past due they declare it lost and you get charged the price of the book. It seems to work pretty well. I pay attention because I don’t want my account turned off. The eight year old would kill me. People who don’t use libraries are speaking without any knowledge about the subject , just trying to make a controversy over something that’s not controversial. “Libraries make books free! News at 11.”
10/03/2019 12:36:00 AM
How do they notify people to return them because somebody else want them? Letters at 50¢ a pop? Phone calls? Do you really think the same people that don't return books are suddenly become more responsive if you contact them? If you can find them. But finding them is a whole other story. People are very, very mobile in the city.
Next police negotiated contract should limit workdays to 165 a year too! Police make about the same as teachers plus putting your life on the line is stressful and exhausting so 165 days sounds fair.
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If you do not like being a cop go to school and get an education degree and become a teacher. It is one of the easiest degrees to get. Unless you are a total idiot you should be able to get a teacher certificate.
Who needs books...everything is on the internet!
city is broke but new mayor forgives parking tickets , late fees for city vehicle license ,red light cameras , water bills
CPD writes 1,000's of anov , do they ever collect one penny in fines
waste of police manpower
lori is a 4' person standing in 10' of water
kimmie wants to expunge records for marijauna possesssion , use on public ways
does she know most of the offenders would be in violation of the new leagalized marijuana laws for personal use
probably not
cps teacher and babysitter go together
teachers are overpaid babysitters that need police to discipline students
require every teacher to provide proof of residency as a condition of the next contract , about 15% live outside the city
Hey Numb Nuts how about forgiving the tax paying citizens some of the outrageous taxes you and the Democrats keep heaping on us. Who do you think is paying for all these give-aways and forgiveness programs. Its certainly not coming out of the pockets of your Big Boy pants.
Speaking of free stuff, how's J-Bloated doing with that broken peg leg holding up the massive frame ? That snake has been quite. I just can't believe this slob was elected after having his toilets removed.
Next police negotiated contract should limit workdays to 165 a year too! Police make about the same as teachers plus putting your life on the line is stressful and exhausting so 165 days sounds fair.
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If you do not like being a cop go to school and get an education degree and become a teacher. It is one of the easiest degrees to get. Unless you are a total idiot you should be able to get a teacher certificate.
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I don’t want to be a CPS employee - I just want an identical pay raise - like the 18% they’re gonna get and I want 4 paid months off like them. Plus I want a little respect from the mayor for putting my life on the line everyday. Not much to ask ... is it?
Except when there are no fines to compel people to return books, exactly what is left for others to access? Empty shelves?
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Public libraries are being used less and less over time are desperate to get anyone to come in the doors to justify their very existence. It doesn't appear that the fines have had much effect on encouraging people to return materials anyway.
Harold didn't have a garage. He lived in an apartment.
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