Posted on 11/22/2017 1:04:37 PM PST by AT7Saluki
Cook County board meetings are usually dry and filled with policy and procedure details.
On Tuesday, that was not the case. There were tears and real emotion.
CBS 2’s Roseanne Tellez introduces us to some of the people who got the most unwelcome news, days before Thanksgiving.
Some county employees begged for their jobs.
Cook County commissioners who supported a penny-an-ounce sweetened beverage tax say they warned of the cost of repealing it: a budget amendment filled with pain.
“It has actual layoffs of human beings who have jobs and who have families,” Commissioner Larry Suffredin (13th District) said.
Officials cut 321 jobs to fill a $200 million budget gap.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.cbslocal.com ...
And, they’ll find some way to blame this on President Trump.
Holy s—t - a government entity actually making cuts?
Every time a government worker loses their job, a kitten is born.
And Cook County???
"Cook County commissioners who supported a penny-an-ounce sweetened beverage tax say they warned of the cost of repealing it"
$623K saved per job cut.
That's some serious savings.
That’s what happens when most of these employees keep voting
and giving democrats power.
If Chicago only had to pay social services and other costs for citizens, not illegals, some of this hardship could have been avoided.
Sanctuary cities are great until you run out of real citizens money.
-156 positions from the court system
-100 from the Cook County Sheriff’s Department
-34 from the hospital system
-15 from the board president’s office.
But commissioners say front-line services were spared.
And the feel good line from the article:
“We did not get rid of our neurosurgeons, we did not get rid of our prosecutors, we did not get rid of our jail guards,” Commissioner Sean Morrison (17th) said.
I think a lot of overspending was caused by crooked politicians using lavish benefits to buy the votes of government workers for many decades.
Now they have to lay off “workers” to support retirees.
Again...a poster thinks this is his local newspaper, and we all know where “Cook County” is...I’ll bet there’s quite a few “Cook” counties in the USA, and after all, this IS a national/international forum.
Ever noticed how newspaper give a “dateline”, like this:
NEW YORK - today in the city blah blah blah...
That’s to let the reader know WHERE (you remember, “WHO, WHY, WHAT, WHERE, and HOW”) the event took place.
Its ok. The bosses all got raises.
Did any of them actually have jobs with the county or were they just getting paychecks?
Did you even read the excerpt?
You know which Cook County this was about? So why the beef?
Notice no thin people were laid off. Is this a case of fat shaming by the government?
At least the linked story immediately identified the city. I hate the posts where neither the title, excerpt, or original story provide any clue as to the location.
“We did not get rid of our neurosurgeons, we did not get rid of our prosecutors, we did not get rid of our jail guards,” Commissioner Sean Morrison (17th) said.
Ok, I give up, why does a county, any county need to employ neurosurgeons (plural)?
There is ONE Cook County that matters. The single most wildly corrupt place on earth, or the Inner Planets. Any other Cook County, in Minnesota or Georgia, would entirely wipe out their work force with 300 layoffs.
You'll note that none of the aldermen are losing their cousins, brothers-in-laws, ward heelers, vote stealers, gofers, the guys that get the coffee, office workers, personal assistants...
Another democrat success story...
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