*Yawn* Leave the insults to the pros.
Oh its not that Im insulting paycheck-signing-taxpayers (Das macht kein Sind). Its just that I have a real easy time insulting backseat mayors, or armchair treasurers, for that matter.
PS: I think we should cut Catherine out of the budget.
Ah so, doch! Schaus das du weiter kommst.
Some of us are a net profit to the budget; I overpay, for services I have never used: public schools and the "Recreation Department" being but two examples. I am one of those check signers. I am happy to pay more. But not for LARD like getting a pay raise for attaining, say, high-school level German disguised in a 'degree'.
Yes, we heard the backseat rhetoric during the TIF-tiff. We heard it from other backseat apple-polishers, smart ones. Fortunately, elected officials are still held to account by taxpaying voters in this country, if not in the Germany of yore.
If the quality of this argument for lard corresponds to the quality of certain services we receive, I am left in no doubt that we can do without some of this and that. This law of unintended consequences visited itself on another ambassador for his cause, the TIF, with extreme force.
As did the editor of the Landmark with regard to highly paid positions, I urge the trustees to start naming nonunion benefits, salaries, and positions, which can be cut before services are cut or a request for home rule or a tax raise is made. This must also be done before tax-diverting schemes are entertained which also entail the threat of eminent domain. These are the executive decisions that they were elected to make. The village admininistration itself has said at the LTFSC meeting that our departments have not all achieved excellent ratings of efficiency when compared to those of other towns. Let's get that done first. Then the taxpayers will be willing to part with more money.
In sum: all killer, no filler please.
PS, headline update: 4th of July back in, of course. Hope our valued union police don't have to separate the lefties and the righties trying to wrap themselves in the Flag.
If I speak Highschool German then the Germans here also speak highschool German. By the way, leave the conclusions up to spatny, he seems to be much more prone to logical reasoning. He is a man after all.
Sadly, this will be my last post in this topic, as everything seems to be getting nowhere. I am going to force myself to wait for the next daft post, and keeping in mind what Catherine has said, I most likely will not have to wait very long.
You better get your affairs in order. Them's fightin' words. If I were you I'd head for one of those airport insurance machines and give old Marlin Perkins a couple of licks at your credit card. Raising gender issues I guess you aren't voting for Hills. Care to comment on the $123K plus bennies we pay our esteemed VM?
Of course you're leaving, little 'man'. You have lost the argument. Bye-bye. Don't forget your "degree." Misogyny, insults to the elderly, and swear words: last refuges of the illogical, immoral, ill-bred, unintelligent, uneducated and, above all, cowardly.
I agree spatny was logical and made sense at the top of the thread when he said the "Recreation Department" was a sinkhole for taxpayer dollars. You didn't seem to think so, but your 'thoughts' are quite garbled.
Never before on this forum have we had swear words, insults to the elderly, and insult to women as such. Neither have we had bad writing. These are connected, apparently. There goes the neighborhood. I trust no village employee shares these attitudes.
Synergist - you have been told off. Fold your tent while you can retreat - before the snow flies. Sonst wird jeman du um die ecke bringin, verstehst du?
More consultants. "This payment in lieu of parking fee will be the second highest in Illinois according to a handout prepared by village consultants."
http://www.rblandmark.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=3146&TM=47305.89
I am happy with the out come of the $15,000 per space although I think it should have been more. Did we really need to hire a consultant for this or could we have had someone from the Rec. Department in between scheduling soccer games call the surrounding towns and ask them?
Synergist or should I call you Apologist? You talk about our hard working employees having to deal with cranks and nutcases. Don't all jobs have similar difficult situations? If it was a fun and no problems they would call it Recreation.
I might be willing to pay for a bit of education for village employees if they would cut back on the Full Employment for Consultants Ordinance of 2005, 2006, 2007.
One last thing for Synergist - Engineering Degree - supposedly over 80 IQ; you show a tremendous ignorance by not knowing Dizzy or Olmsted. Could it be the problem was you just didn't understand what the Olmsted Society people were saying?
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