Yea well, *image* is everything they say.
~eh??
In this day & age of form without devoid of substance I'm sure the whiney ploy's sucked up by the dolts lock, stock & barrel.
"The Chicago City Council and the Cook County Board are totally dominated by Democrats whom are elected year after year by people who are naive enough to believe that the Party of the People is looking out for their best interests. When are they going to get it??"
Pleeeeazzee oh brainy one, when are you going to stop asking such silly questions, huh.
As if in anticipation one day the pure white light of stuidity's going to enlighten the morons responsible for "The Chicago City Council and the Cook County Board are totally dominated by Democrats whom are elected year after year by people who are naive enough to believe that the Party of the People is looking out for their best interests" is imminant?
Geshhhh.
The constituents of this (&/or any other area) who continually permit themselves to be living *hosts* to a pack of lying, thieving bloodsucker parasites *deserve* every single kick in the ass they get *and* a lowered blood level.
Most normal people are instantly repulsed by the mere thought their blood was being sucked from 'em by some kind of a parasite; yet, think nothing of the modern day American politician doing much, much worse?
They *deserve* each other.
All a sane person can do is leave that lot, to themselves & whatever the cost, flee.
"Richie is a hoot."
Richie's a lot of things, & *pig* has to be near the top.
No laughing matter, y'know.
Actually quite embarrassing to anyone living in, around or within 100 miles of that city.
"Now that his 'hired truck scandal' is on the front page..."
HA!!!
Of *what*?
The Sun Slimes?
Because surely the Tribune's looking the other way, tired from having *investigated* the punky drunken sot former Pubbie Gov who ran some penny ante scheme bilking nickels & dimes at IDOT? :o)
"...he is suddenly very concerned about the tax problem in the city/county! I think I may barf!"
Hmmmmmm, wonder what would The Bent1 do in this instance???
GOT IT!!
Announce to -- the nation -- the Windy City of Chicago's going to soon join their kindred spirit city of San Francisco & begin performing *gay* marriages!!!
~eh?
(~The equivalent of bombing an aspirin factory, only on a national level...)
Yup, it's only "right" & "For *The* people"; which, we all know [read: been conditioned] has been the hallmark of the 'Rat Party from the very beginning at all levels of government. :o)
"BUT, how much you wanna bet, that the true RAT believers re-elect Ritchie and all of the other thieves??"
Whaaaaaat, that's a sucker's bet of which I want no part.
~Ain't that right, Mud.
"Either the voters are very stupid or there is more election fraud in Cook County than we ever imagined."
Or *just* maybe?
...both. ;^)
At any rate. We used to haul a lot of freight outta their main plant in Webster NY. The dock workers (union) were making an unbelievable salary. Around $30 per hour to load freight unto the trailers. The shipping area was mostly automated. They'd punch in some numbers on the computer and then the automated rack system would bring the machines down from wherever they were and than the dock worker would shrink rap them (via another machine) and then via forklift put them into the trailer.
One extremely cold winter we were up there (Andy in his condo box, I in the Freight shaker) and we were talking to the dock supervisor and we asked him about Christmas and what they were planning to do. He said (now get this) that Xerox had offered the entire plant triple time if they'd work up to 3 days before Christmas, take off, and come back 3 days after Christmas. Work until a day before new years day, take off new years eve, new years day and the next day. The reason was they had a lot of orders that had to be shipped out.
TRIPLE time. That meant $90 per hour for the dock workers. The union had a meeting and take a wild guess what they voted, yep they voted NO. They wanted their 2.5 weeks off.
Andy and I told the supervisor that we'd work those two weeks for 1/2 ($45 per hour each) and that we'd work in two 12 hour shifts. I'd work the night shift with the night supervisor and Andy would work the day shift with the day super.
The supervisors (both are management) said they'd love that but, the union would consider that bringing in scabs and they'd call a strike.
Now I can't stand seeing our jobs being out sourced to other countries but, I can understand it (in some instances) because of the above encounter.
When I heard that Xerox was closing down their Webster plant and moving to Mexico, I felt kindda bad for the family's of the workers but, I still cheered. I felt (and still feel) that if anyone would turn down $90 per hour, they deserved to loose their job.