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It's been a while since we've read a good, old fashioned anti-government manifesto. Luckily for us, reader Katie Scully was kind enough to share these pics, displaying a lengthy anti-Daley/Parking Meter/Taxes/2016 Olympics manifesto posted earlier this month in the front window of String A Strand in Lincoln Square. At first, we were going to have a little fun, but then we realized the rant could easily double for anything either we or our pals over at the Reader have written in the last six months.
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The stench of City Hall. No, it is not corrupt politicians or unwashed Aldermen.
Piss Poor Plumbin
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OK, yes, we all agree with a lot of the points here, but the Reader would at least do a little research and copy editing before running that.
Note that I said the Reader would do a little research and copy editing. As for Chicagoist...
The Reader copy edits photos?
And why would they "research" this? ... Chicagoist didn't write it.
Before lecturing on Journalism 101, you might want to TAKE Journalism 101.
OK, Marcus said this rant could "easily double for anything" Chicagoist or the Reader had written over the last several months. My point was simply that the Reader wouldn't have written that the company that owns the parking meter lease is "owned by Daley's brother" without some back-up research or more info, and that many of the their/they're/there type grammar issues on display wouldn't have made it into print. Chicagoist is an aggregator, not a news source, so I wouldn't expect them to do the same kind of back-up research as the Reader, but it seems like an awful lot of grammar problems get by- that's all I was saying. Sorry.
Well, for what it's worth, I understood the insult completely.
Sam has my vote.
"Sam has my vote."
You have got to be kidding. Last time I checked it's impossible to balance a budget that is already facing a large deficit by (greatly) reducing revenues and increasing expense, as is proposed. But since he's smart enough to write on some paper and post it in a storefront I'm sure he'll be able to find "the right people who know how to balance the budget with no tax increase."
At times I don't get (some of) you people.
Has my vote as well. Maybe this is a start of a movement, or not.
B _ _ _ _ _ D S!!!
I did some reporting around there in the spring. Looks like the list of grievances has gotten longer since then. This place has been there, though, for almost 40 years so I can understand the frustration.
Absolutely, this is what 40 years in this city will do to you.
i love him already. i'll write him in. what absolutely galls and astounds me is the leagues of people who look at me with their dead eyes and bright smiles and tell me that 'this is how all government works' and 'things get done around here' and 'every big city runs this way.'
i'm not sure WHICH logical fallacy those are, but they are. boiling it down, two wrongs don't make a right. or as my mother would say, "if every big city jumped off a corruption cliff, would you?" i don't get why the people of chicago will sit and let themselves be completely robbed by this joker/king/thief.
the city doesn't work -- it shut down on monday because it needed the extra money. our streets were sheets of ice this winter because daley wanted to save some cash on overtime and salt. the potholes and sinkholes (some of them are downright frightening; they're NOT potholes when half a car can fit in them!) grow in number and size by the day. as is evidenced by the uptown video posted here the other day and the number of schoolkids lost to gun violence over the last year, we obviously have a problem with our police force. and sam definitely has the parking meter sitch covered.
did someone say we needed an olympics? grrrr.
They're just lucky it wasn't as hot Monday as it was over the weekend, since they closed the cooling centers also known as libraries Monday.
We can't even keep the libraries open. It's just pathetic.
Where do people in need of cooling centers go when it's hot on Sunday?
I don't like having to pay more for the meters, and to have to feed them on Sundays, holidays and evenings. I also agree that the city probably got a raw deal from the vendor that bought the meters. I also think that we need to get rid of the DemocratIC machine and actually have some competitive multi-party elections.
That being said, I have never -- not in over 20 years living here -- had such an easy time finding places to park in neighborhoods where no parking could ever be found before.
I wonder which is worse, his spelling and grammar or the fact that he and his employees can't park all day in front of the store for twenty-five cents an hour? Personally, I believe that hiring more cops and keeping the taxpayers safe should be job one. Parking meters and potholes are way, way down on the priority list.