Posted on 11/13/2004 9:35:52 AM PST by MississippiMasterpiece
Another Blue State... humm!?
It's a shame to see a city which holds so many fond memories for me become more of a rat hole. First (well, maybe not first) Meigs Field closed in the middle of the night and now this. Let me know when Daley's gone. I'd love to visit again.
I think we should call them purple states in honor of all the red outside the urban centers. In my little brain they already are called that.
Doing it for "the people". Isn't it nice that they have the city government looking out for them.
It will not change until they demand a change in the voting both and at the city council (ward/alderman/whatever)meetings.
After all doesn't Chicago mean "Stinking River"?
I've been to Chicago three times in the last six years. I have to wash it off every time I come home. You can feel the sleaze in the air over there.
It has been 20 years since I lived in Chicago. Parking was just as tough then. So you have to look around - you can quickly recognize someone looking for parking - I call them "seekers". I lived around Wrigley Field and never got a ticket. When I had an apartment on the 3200 Block of Lake Shore Drive, I found that I needed to find private parking because too much time and effort went to find a street space. But that is the exception, highrises along the lake shore. When I moved again to 3100N & 1200W, there was reasonable street parking. The only problem was in the winter. If I didn't want to walk too far, I had to settle for a space across from the small factory that made Reed Root Beer Barrel Candy. The steam from their vents would freeze on the car windows, making an extra three minutes of ice scraping.
This is a long-winded way to say that the people with all the tickets are lazy. That they got caught up in a spoils system by the city only matters because they kept getting and ignoring tickets.
I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help you.
As long as the people put corrupt politicians into office they will have to deal with the corruption that follows. As for me, I'd never want to live in those urban hellholes.
Nawww...........
You gotta be puttin' me on.....
I can understand the corrupt logic in the city stealing cars and selling them for like 3 or 4 thousand dollars per car. But for selling cars this cheaply, what the city government is doing is pure sadism.
Chicago: the place that was the first to extend to all the right to vote dem...even the dead!
I visit Chicago frequently and had my car towed once when I parked in a spot that was no parking on Thursdays for street cleaning. Obviously a revenue generating measure. I don't feel too much sympathy for this person, because anyone who lives in Chicago should know how notorious they are about enforcing parking restrictions. Despite my experience, I'm OK with it.
BTW if it ever happens to you, be aware that they require proof of ownership before they'll give you your car back.
now I know why I don't go downtown blue land
So what's new. Government forgot who they work for. Only way to stop corruption is to get rid of the corrupt. Vote them out!
The question you need to ask is "who is buying $13,000 cars for $125???"
Government employees?
Friends and family of government employees?
If it was anywhere but chicago, there would be an investigation into this.
No wonder that King Richie II does not want anyone to own guns . . .
One way to put a curb on it is to get a group together to sponsor a ballot measure on the next election that would transfer the amount owed to the person that bought the car from the impound yard.
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