Chicago "Lost its Mind" Financially
Some harsh words from the Washington Post:
The editorial board of the Washington Post called out Mayor Brandon Johnson on Monday, arguing he has mismanaged Chicago to the point the city has financially "lost its mind." The board argued that Chicago has an extensive history of using short-term economic gimmicks, and Johnson and his allies are more of the same.
The board said that Chicago’s net operating budget increased almost 40 percent between 2019 and 2025, which, according to Grant McClintock of the Civic Federation, was "subsidized in large part by temporary federal pandemic funding that kept the City financially afloat."
[...] "The pandemic is over, but many of the programs and personnel positions established during that time remain, and without the benefit of the federal funding that previously supported them," he said.
Good thing the Post didn't get hold of Conehead's Northwestern Memorial Hospital Mental In-Patient Frequent Flyer card. It wouldn't just be Chicago that would be accused of losing its mind.
Conehead is hanging his imaginary budget numbers on the Civic Federation, which has claimed there's no hard evidence a head-tax would drive businesses out. This is the same Civic Federation that "....told the city last year not to pay the full pension amount...." so you'll excuse us if we don't really trust their judgement.
Budget talks have stalled again, raising the possibility of some sort of a shutdown where the City will pay everyone in I.O.U.s or something.
Labels: money questions
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
67 Comments:
Fuck you...Pay me.
Whats yous gots nuttin....Butters raise taxes assssho
For a second when I was reading the WP article that unnecessary heads of unnecessary positions might be axed, coupled with axing the unnecessary programs to save money. Then no mention of it actually happening. 😭
This is from my guy at the FOP:
Good evening everyone. I don't t know if any of you all have been watching the news lately, but we are about 16 days away from a City government shutdown! The Mayor and City council still haven't agreed on a budget for 2026. I'm not trying to alarm anybody, but there is a good possibility that our December 22nd paychecks may be the last paychecks we get for a while! So, I would advise everyone to plan accordingly and not make any big purchases! A government shutdown has never happened in the City of Chicago, but with Mayor Brandon Johnson, anything is possible! Nobody thinks that something like this can happen until it actually does! So, I'll just say this one last thing:
Hope for the best, but plan for the worst! Stay warm and stay safe everyone!
What's with this huge lie and rumor someone started spreading?
Hey, if you want to hire our citizens you have to pay me for it. Plain and simple. What's the problem?
It doesn’t take a financial genius to cut the fucking budget 🤪
Chicago politics have destroyed the fabric that makes everything nice in the city. Every agency is mismanaged including CPD. They wonder why everyone wants to move away. I can’t wait to get out of here.
Has chicago finally hit it's credit linit? I sure the hell hope so.
Hello, any local investigative reporters out there. Crickets, Crickets. Crickets.
This idiot was only elected by 13% of the voters in an off cycle election.
Time to change the script.
amazing how just now some of the libs are talking just like the legal, law-abiding, tax paying Republicans have been for the past 30 years
Mayor CTU is the worst mayor in America. This place will soon look like a shanty town in Haiti.
Don’t trust the American Pravda, the Washington Post, to suggest any way out of Chicago’s dire financial crisis other than to diminish the pension benefits earned by policemen and firemen. The paper is the bully pulpit for marxists and hates what we represent.
It’s really simple. Cut spending. Cut waste. But Johnson is too stupid. He should never be in a position of power. He’s not even qualified to bag groceries at Jewel.
Blame DJT and all is good in the hood
Good thing the Post didn't get hold of Conehead's Northwestern Memorial Hospital Mental In-Patient Frequent Flyer card.
Grandma Urethra Johnson would always say, "That boy he ain't right in the head."
The city would rather owe it to you than cheat you out of it 🤥
Are the teachers exempt from the No Pay Status possibility.... if a shutdown occurs?
Will there be bonus checks paid for showing up
An employee at Northwestern should do the residents of Chicago a solid favor, and expose number of times Brandon Johnson has entered its facilities to seek treatment for his so-called "panic attacks". This should be public information, not something hidden behind "privacy" and "HIPA regs".
This unspoken issue of competency of chief publicly-elected official of Chicago is as ridiculous as all those claims Biden was "fit" to serve as President even as media's visual record of Biden 2020-2025 contradicted those claims. Brandon Johnson is not, and never ever was, "fit" to be mayor of Chicago. That he is mayor keenly demonstrates Preckwinkle, Democratic Party, CTU give zero regard to good governance and competency to serve, and voters are too stupid to care.
How is Conehead's water bill doing?
The number NON-TEACHING support positions at CPS now are higher than the entire CPD.
Read that again
No pay no work! How does the disability work if we r not getting paid? You never know what could happen out there!
There is a tailor made solution for problems like this, when there is way too little money to pay way too many bills. It is called bankruptcy. The debts can be restructured, you know, debts like union contracts and pension liabilities.
Shutdown will not occur. It can’t. The money is there so fucking pay us!
Here is a way to help balance the budget; stop giving our money away to illegal aliens and demand the state pay for our consent decree that they insist we be under or terminated it!!
The city can shut down. Look at the federal government, they had money but still no pay checks for almost 2 months.
The academic scholar "BJ" Johnson impersonated an Educational Industrial Complex pedagogue for CPS. This financial dumbass couldn't balance a checkbook after being that educator at a recognized CPS scholastic math and science academy. This fool can't pay for his faucet water or his commode flush and had to be put on a City of Chicago utility collection agency payment arraignment. That's after dinging the credit karma for his FICO profile. BJ made over 100k and neglected his financial obligations for an essential house utility! For real? And now this fool is in charge of a multi-billion dollar municipal budget.
Detroit, Here we come!
Keep getting those blue cards and writing tickets...sure does pay off, doesn't it??? Dumb asses.
I am hoping for a shutdown. Voters need to see and fully realize how incompetent city leadership truly is.
Conehead is one missed dose of Zoloft away from another panic attack and spending money the city doesn't have. The men with the butterfly nets are standing by to take Conehead into custody.
The aldertheives think dropping the head tax from 15 dollars a month to 10 dollars a month is a win.
No one is talking about making cuts to spending...SHUT IT ALL DOWN!!!!
Lets all hit the reset button.
What’s even more scary than this idiot being the mayor right now is….he will be in office until May of 2027! That’s an eternity. Think about how much damage he will do.
Confused. Article said a group of 11 aldermen brought this proposal to Johnson, another said a group of 19
My problem is that means he has more than enough votes to pass the city budget. Don’t you only need 26?
Hey conehead add this to your till. Guess who’s back in town? Hopefully handcuffs are placed on you and your goofy governor and the crook County board president lock them up.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/border-patrol-gregory-bovino-back-in-chicago-little-village/
I smell another few City assets for long term leases going out for bid. CPD & CFD delivering door dash during patrols or firehouse shopping runs? Lets spitball some moneymaking ideas here SCC. For the collective souls, so to speak.
No, but it does take someone more educated then a kindergarten teacher.
Wait until Attorney General Bondi comes in to take a look at Brandon’s books.
Well, you start with a 30 percent cut in city personnel across the board.
During the great depression, the city paid the police in IOUs. It was called Script. For example, you were owed $100. City gave you 100 script. You took it to the grocery store and they would give you $30 in stuff. The grocery store would deposit the hundred dollar script and get maybe 40 dollars. The rich bankers would buy the script and sold it back to the city after the depression for FULL value.
When Detroit filed for bankruptcy the general laborers saw a 4.5% decrease in pension payouts and a total elimination of the cola. Police/Fire did better with no pension decrease but the cola was cut in half.
Hey 12/16/2025 09:14:39 AM, oh yes, it absolutely can!
Though I bet somehow the teachers will still get paid.
Yet everyone’s real estate taxes is just skyrocketed. He still has no money, but he’s given billions more to the teachers subpar performance indoctrinating the children schools 3/4 or more empty they can’t even read at a third grade level. This is criminal. He needs to be arrested and dragged off to prison we need a federal forensic audit.
Yeah but when you go bankrupt you don't get to keep your stuff, you also have to show where the money went.
The consulting firm McKinsey has announced 4,000 layoffs, most coming from their Chicago HQ.
The real question should be is he qualified to gather shopping carts from the parking lot.
But it's for the children!
Oh, yes it absolutely can, I agree, but me playing the lottery, CAN also make me a millionaire, but does that mean that I will?
Anytime someone says "I have a guy, or my guy," insert here_________ automatically loses any credibility!
I worked for a city dept from 1982 till 2004. We were pretty lean when I started. 1 supt. And 3 foreman city wide for over 100 men. Old well maintained yellow equipment. When I left we had as many chiefs as Indians, all new expensive top line blue equipment that wasn't maintained at all.park it outside and let it rot. Bosses everywhere, new districts invented with buildings city cars and tons of non working staff. Dei hires everywhere and massive abuse of ot and disability. Hdo, black caucus, Burke and Madigan people filled the ranks. This was a construction bureau and productivity went to shit. So the city hired contractors to do the real work. Eliminate the politics and the tribal cult of personality and you could cut the payroll by 2/3 rds and get more work done. Just like the contractors do. And only buy what you need and not unnecessary equipment that pays the most kickbacks and never get used. More taxes have led to the straw breaking the camels back, it's time the city returned to the real world and not the everything is about the next election world. It's over kids.
One year ago, there were hundreds of millions to give to illegal aliens Conehead. Look at ya now!
Illinois is on the same path. Shrinking taxpayer base, businesses' leaving. Growing deficits. Higher taxes. And Fatass has no other plan than to keep spending more.
Shut down the city and the state
Imagine reporting to work for City of Chicago IOU’s and being disrespected by shithead or a white shirt. Whipped to clear the backlog faster. Potentially injured and city unable to cover IOD bills. Or BCBS pausing policy due to missed city payments. Pay and OT is what keeps the beat car wheels spinning. Budget better pass or I foresee major patrol pushback. Tact and watch secretaries get your paperwork squared away, might need it come January 8th when the checks bounce.
Got $50 million to cut out of the budget if you get rid of the Alderthieves Ward Slush Funds of $1 million/Ward.
Should be plenty of bullshit to get rid of that can easily save another $50 million, so there's $100 million out of a $1 billion budget, just saved 10% w/o even really trying.
Wanna save more? No more freebies for illegals - $200 million + right there. So another 20% of the budget.
30% cut right now.
Let's find another 20% and we're at 50% of a bullshit budget. Still plenty in that 50% to fund some envelopes for these leeches, so they ought to be able to "survive" and get a budget passed so the rest of us can eat too.
ORRRRRR, there's always ultra-old school methods to consider if these fucks decide to not do their jobs...
Scrip. Not script. One is BS money, the other is what actors memorize.
Time to do a 99 yr lease on Midway Airport ! CPS owns the land underneath it !
Shut this bitch down and then the books will be opened for all to see.
Great Flim Flam ! The Medium to Long Con. Gotta Luv Double Entry Accounting. They did it with Gold IOU notes with No Gold on hand too. Now go git U a sarsaparilla not a root beer.
So if we do not get paid, do we still have to show up to work?
Chicago is the 21st century Detroit , run by Coleman Young's mentally challenged bastard child. Yet some businesses are still investing in this city...actually building $200M+ skyscrapers. Multiple heads will eventually roll for every moving crane you see in the city. Bet on it.
Bondi is an idiot, nothing but a puppet.....get a clue.
You'll be waiting forever.
Well, when we’re governed by retards, it does make things kind of difficult.
12/16/2025 02:28:21 PM
Chicago CAN NOT afford a forensic audit!
Way too many people going to jail!
Under DJT- oh HELL YES!
Under a Democratic President- probably not
Fuck you, pay me.
Pay me what I worked for.
Pay me the money you owe me and countless others from a federal judges decision...
Pay me my retro...
Fuck you BJ...pay me you clown
And this is why you became a cop, geez this can't be a real person!
Property taxes are paid to county.
City only gets what county approves and pays.
County can cock block city requests.
They don’t work for the city they work for the CPS. Different entities.
Law enforcement is an employee/employer equation.
Gainful employment.
Would you ask this implied question of your proctologist?
Or gynocologist?
Get Bejing and Riyadh on the line? They are ready to buy!
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