Cuts? What Cuts?
***On Sunday, Mayor Davlin said that the city's budget crisis was going to lead to deep, deep cuts in city services with many, many layoffs. The very next day, though, the Mayor's Blue Ribbon Task Force announces that they have the solution to avoid such deep cuts and many layoffs.
The question has to be asked. Did the Mayor not know what was going to be in the report OR was he attempting, in a ham-fisted way, to dramatically lower expectations for the report? This administration has always chose the dramatic over the reasonable when dealing with the City Council and the public during budget negotiations.
The report, does recommend some belt-tightening and some tax increases. The report, though, does not address consolidation of services, salary increases for higher-end employees or a hiring freeze to be put in place immediately. The report does say that a hiring freeze should be "evaluated". Well, the last time it was "evaluated", the Mayor vetoed it.
***In Springfield, we need to do some real budgeting, make real, lasting cuts and make the Springfield budget & city government more efficient, effective, responsive & transparent. In Chicago, they are dealing with their own budget problems. However, it is certainly of a different caliber when Chicago Alderman are prepared to go to battle with Mayor Daley's plan to cut "free jumping jacks".
A jumping jack, by the way, is also know as a moonwalk - the inflatable thing that kids jump in at carnivals. Chicago makes these things available for free to neighborhood block parties and festivals. If you can't cut free jumping jacks without the jumping jack constituency getting up in arms, paying a jumping jack lobbyist, taking testimony from the depressed jumping jack industry and hear heart-tugging stories about how free jumping jacks saved some poor sot of a child, than what kind of COUNTRY DO WE LIVE IN?!?!?!
***The Chicago high school that was proposed for gay students will now be for all 'disenfranchised' students. What the hell does that mean? At some point in everyone's life we may feel disenfranchised. I didn't get picked until last for dodge ball - I'm disenfranchised. I didn't win my student council senat at-large seat - I'm disenfranchised. I like to dye my hear blue and someone made fun of me - I'm disenfranchised.
Here is the Trib's take.
Should anyone be bullied for who they are or what they look like? Of course not. Do was spend millions of dollars on anti-bullying assemblies and teacher training? Yes, we do. People get made fun of. People have their feelings hurt. People don't always get what they want or need.
That's life. Grow up.
***We'll be talking about the Fairness Doctrine with Curt Mercadante today.
The question has to be asked. Did the Mayor not know what was going to be in the report OR was he attempting, in a ham-fisted way, to dramatically lower expectations for the report? This administration has always chose the dramatic over the reasonable when dealing with the City Council and the public during budget negotiations.
The report, does recommend some belt-tightening and some tax increases. The report, though, does not address consolidation of services, salary increases for higher-end employees or a hiring freeze to be put in place immediately. The report does say that a hiring freeze should be "evaluated". Well, the last time it was "evaluated", the Mayor vetoed it.
***In Springfield, we need to do some real budgeting, make real, lasting cuts and make the Springfield budget & city government more efficient, effective, responsive & transparent. In Chicago, they are dealing with their own budget problems. However, it is certainly of a different caliber when Chicago Alderman are prepared to go to battle with Mayor Daley's plan to cut "free jumping jacks".
A jumping jack, by the way, is also know as a moonwalk - the inflatable thing that kids jump in at carnivals. Chicago makes these things available for free to neighborhood block parties and festivals. If you can't cut free jumping jacks without the jumping jack constituency getting up in arms, paying a jumping jack lobbyist, taking testimony from the depressed jumping jack industry and hear heart-tugging stories about how free jumping jacks saved some poor sot of a child, than what kind of COUNTRY DO WE LIVE IN?!?!?!
***The Chicago high school that was proposed for gay students will now be for all 'disenfranchised' students. What the hell does that mean? At some point in everyone's life we may feel disenfranchised. I didn't get picked until last for dodge ball - I'm disenfranchised. I didn't win my student council senat at-large seat - I'm disenfranchised. I like to dye my hear blue and someone made fun of me - I'm disenfranchised.
Here is the Trib's take.
Should anyone be bullied for who they are or what they look like? Of course not. Do was spend millions of dollars on anti-bullying assemblies and teacher training? Yes, we do. People get made fun of. People have their feelings hurt. People don't always get what they want or need.
That's life. Grow up.
***We'll be talking about the Fairness Doctrine with Curt Mercadante today.
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