mr_genius

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 27, 2011 -> 09:07 PM) Turn in your man card immediately.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 27, 2011 -> 08:37 PM) F*** that, get Mark! a win. ^^

QUOTE (Tex @ Sep 27, 2011 -> 08:16 PM) Isn't this how the whole government is funded? We cut taxes, run a deficit, and "somebody else" pays the deficit plus interest.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Sep 27, 2011 -> 04:16 PM) People who work downtown and drive in from the burbs should have to pay a tax as well as an extra parking fee. f***ing day trippers. haha yea. i do kind of like that idea.

REVENUE INCREASES (150.1) Impose a pay-per-throw garbage collection fee: $125M Eliminate free water for hospitals and non-profits: $15.2M Eliminate reduced rate city stickers for Seniors: $7.6M Double the boat mooring tax: $1.3M Increase health insurance contribition for city employees making over 90k: $1M (would increase this more) SERVICE/DEPARTMENT CUTS (780.3) Eliminate supervisory personnel redundencies (includes 707 from CFD who have a 3.5-1 ratio, and 309 from CPD currently 8-1): $190M Fire 595 Firefighters: $145M Fire 161 general laborers: $65M Reduce firefighting teams from 5 to 4 per vehicle (this proposal caused the 1980 CFD strike): $57M Get rid of on call pay for CPD and CFD: $52M Convert 20% of firefighting apparatus to ambulance/EMS: $41.5M Switch all employees to a 40 hour workweek from 35 and reduce accordingly: $40M Fire 75 downtown traffic control aides: $37M Transfer City Dept of Public Health to the Cook County Health and Hospital System: $33.7M Eliminate 200 motor pool truck drivers who just transport to jobs: $19M Transfer all election management oversight to Cook County: $16.1M Eliminate quarterly pay for supervisors: $9.6M Eliminate Chicago Career Tech (job training program): $8.4M Eliminate tuition reimbursement programs for city employees: $7.3M Eliminate funding for after school and summer employment programs for youth: $6.5M Disband CPD marine and helicopter units: $6.2M Eliminate Condo Refuse Rebate Program: $6M Eliminate city-funded delegate agency programs for small business: $5.6M Merge City and Park District agencies: $5M Reduce spending on janitorial services: $5M Reduce number of holidays for city employees from 12 to 10: $4.9M Charge more for health insurance for city employees who smoke: $4.8M (would also increase for overweight workers) Eliminate "Personal Computer Operators": $4M Hold municipal elections on same day as statewide elections: $3M Close down the CFD Commisary contract and use just the uniform allowance: $2M Reduce number of fire districts and district-level personnel from 6 to 4: $1.9M Eliminate city TB clinics: $1.4M Eliminate subsidy to "World Business Chicago" economic development office: $1.4M Independent commission to redistrict ward boundaries apolitically: $1M OTHER Eliminate the TIF program entirely: $100M

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Sep 26, 2011 -> 09:37 PM) Hooker Finder. haha

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 27, 2011 -> 11:41 AM) To be fair, his job was to recommend ways to close the budget gap, and he came up with 63 ideas to do so - less than half were increasing revenue. Have to pick some. Might be a good thread idea, if we can get a hold of the full list, provide a target number to close, and see which cuts and/or increases people would pick. probably would be a good thread.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Sep 27, 2011 -> 09:18 AM) I am extremely pleased that he had his tenure as White Sox manager. Sure, it was time to go, but Ozzie goes down as one of our best. I agree, Ozzie was good for the Sox.

http://www.suntimes.com/7892293-417/inspec...s-on-table.html tax tax tax too bad all these new taxes will just lower property values and convince people and business to leave the city. in the end they would lose money.

I thought it was common knowledge that was how Groupon counted revenue. I've known for a long time.

Rush Limbaugh gets joke stolen by some guy that was in the GOP debate. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/22/r...kusaolp00000008

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/fox-ne...bate-yet_b89147 more peopled tuned in to the debate

QUOTE (VictoryMC98 @ Sep 23, 2011 -> 07:29 PM) My Favorite line from last nights debate came from Perry in regards to immigration.. We need to get the Aviation on the ground. i think he said it 3 times. Jim Perry is very stupid.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 23, 2011 -> 05:33 PM) Once again, Sean Penn is a total asshole. haha. sean penn saves the day AGAIN

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 23, 2011 -> 07:54 AM) Any highlights or lowlights you would like to share? I wanted to watch but couldn't. Highlights: 1) Huntsman got a lot of questions and bombed them all. No cheering, some boos. 2) Romney did OK, much better than Perry. 3) Finished on a good note. Lowlights: 1) Perry bombed. Got booed when he talked about immigration. He did the worst 2) Gingrich didn't do well. Was boring, had nothing new to say. ' 3) Bachmann was very annoying

This GOP debate has been terrible.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 21, 2011 -> 10:03 PM) that manages to top Moore's recent "most feared and hated man in the country" claim for oblivious egoism. yea but Rush Limbaugh is cool and hilarious. Michael Moore just seems like a whiny fatso to me.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 21, 2011 -> 09:33 PM) "established me as one of the nation’s great thinkers"

well which is it? build more 'shovel ready' roads with stimulus money or not? you guys are all over the place.

Obama attempts to gain credibility by channeling the intellect of the mighty and knowledgeable Rush Limbaugh. http://nation.foxnews.com/rush-limbaugh/20...plagiarized-him

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 20, 2011 -> 04:32 PM) One of the people discussed there filled in the ellipsis. It doesn't change the view of Rahm and Larry, but this seems like an important omission. Link. obama was obviously enabling their behavior. do you think hillary should challenge Obama for the 2012 dem nomination?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 1, 2011 -> 09:16 AM) There was an article yesterday in the Sun Times that pointed to Hispanics being the key to the Republicans' challenges to the Democrats' map in Illinois. They can argue that the new maps underrepresent Hispanics in violation of the voting rights act. the illinois map is a joke.

welcome back

blowout

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 18, 2011 -> 02:32 PM) I'll see your Steve Wynn on economic policy and raise you by a Google. how much free money do i get? i promise i will buy stuff with it. stimulate the economy.