Posted on 02/09/2009 3:13:29 PM PST by STARWISE
Here is the list of projects that Mayor Richard Daley said today Chicago wants to pursue with new funding from the pending federal economic stimulus plan. Compare his less-than-detailed announcement with the lists compiled by other mayors, linked below.
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*Repair or reconstruct 15 miles of public transit lines
*Retrofit and improve more than 200 schools for the 21st century
*Resurface more than 150 miles of arterial city streets
*Retrofit more than 200 miles of city street lights
*Install or repair 75 miles of sewer and water mains
*Install solar panels in more than 200 city facilities
*Repair a substantial number of bridges and viaducts
*Expand broadband access to over 22,000 homes, including
*10,000 Chicago Housing Authority units
*Enhance technology at our schools and healthcare system
*Weatherize thousands of homes to improve energy efficiency
*Train workers for the new economy, including nurses and health care professionals
*Improve education … by providing tutoring or remediation services, special education programs and continued training for teachers
*Provide additional Head Start and early Head Start programs for children
*Provide meals to children and seniors Provide new funding for police
(Excerpt) Read more at newsblogs.chicagotribune.com ...
Note that all of the wish lists I've seen from other municipalities have a price tag attached for each project and include the number of jobs derived from each project. Hmmmm.
~~Chicago Way ........PING!
Retrofit more than 200 miles of city street lights *Install or repair 75 miles of sewer and water mains *Install solar panels in more than 200 city facilities
I live in Texas! Why do I have to pay for Chicago's crap! Lord have mercy!!! We just lost the Republic!!!
Good lord..Can’t his own tax base fund some of that stuff! It sounds like stuff that every city has to do as a matter of course! He still hasn’t ‘released’ all of the ‘pay to play projects’. What an utterly corrupt mayor and town!
Pathetic that people in Chicago put up with it! He is probably going to ‘meet’ Obama out of fear his phones are tapped by the feds!!
He will have to communicate with his Thug in Chief in person now. (eye roll)
The tax base that could pay for this stuff either is so rich that they don’t pay taxes (see Obama’s nominees) or are too poor to be able to pay any. The middle class (e.g., taxpayers) live out in the suburbs - where the infrastructure is in better shape because it’s newer and there’s less (but by no means no) corruption in the governments and corporations that maintain them.
He is probably going to ‘meet’ Obama out of fear his phones are tapped by the feds....
Is the Pope Catholic?
I keep waiting for someone to ask a very simple question - does Obama only want to create blue collar jobs? Every appropriation in this bill are for blue collar jobs. There is no business expansion in this bill, so all the white collar workers that have lost - or are losing - your job, you either are s(hit) out of luck or you need to learn how to dig ditches.
This - along with the Free Choice Act - is a catastrophe for US business. I can’t believe the stock market hasn’t already crashed because of the long term implications with this bill on the business community. Demand is going to dry up for many US bellweather industries.
Bill Ayers is happy.
And the blue color jobs are being filled by which groups of people?
Good post.
The graft and corruption in that town/state are really breathtaking in scope. I never paid much attention to Chicago politics until the last year. It looks like the Mob and the Unions run the entire state.
If you haven't seen it lately check out:
Plan on spending some time reading and connecting dots
Thanks for the link.
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