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CITY IS GOOD ONLY AT WASTING OUR MONEY

Talk about wasted money. City plumbers are paid $40 per hour for eight hours and work three, then they are called in on weekends at double time to do the work they should have done during the week. That's how our city works.

BUSH HYPOCRITICAL ON WAR

I listened to President Bush's comments on the Georgia/Moscow war. He should try looking in a mirror and seeing the face of the U.S. "dictator" who went into a country under false pretenses -- weapons of mass destruction -- killed its dictator, and yes, killed, thousands of young Americans. Bush is no authority on foreign relations. I agree with your other reader that he should be impeached and tried on war crimes.

JONES HAS SOME EXPLAINING TO DO

Emil Jones needs to explain how we are going to pay for all the lucrative, double-dipping, unfunded pensions that the state is liable for. For instance, the pension he will be collecting very soon.

JONES TOYS WITH OUR MONEY

I think it's ludicrous that Emil Jones wants to raise his ridiculous salary while our schools, infrastructure and housing market struggle to stay afloat. Jones thinks Pat Quinn is a "nettlesome tsetse fly" and that his protest against the raise is "stupid." Sounds like Jones needs to rethink his values and his office. If you ask me, if Quinn is the stupid fly, Jones is no less the smoldering pile of dung, with an IQ to match.

PUT A SOCK IN IT, MEEKS

I wonder what kind of welcoming committee awaits the Rev. Meeks when he steps off the bus in Winnetka? Does he think the people over there want him or the parents or the students of the CPS in their town, let alone their schools? Rev. Meeks, if you are so concerned about the education of the poor black students in the city of Chicago, perhaps you can set up school in your house of worship or maybe enroll them in your private school. The good people of Winnetka pay for the schools where their children attend and should not have to put up with your political tactics.

STEALTH WAR ON CRIME

In response to the suggested design of Chicago police cruisers: I think it is a great idea. Criminals will simply jump in the back seat assuming it's a taxi.

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