"Right now, the first need of workers is to get back the jobs and hours of employment they lost. Without a helping hand from the city, they might not have any job to come back to."
I always laugh whenever one of the aldermen or mayor get on the boob tube and proclaim that they are going to “help” businesses. Especially the favored “small businesses.” They really don’t care, but they know that you like to hear these words, because they know YOU like your neighborhood businesses. In truth, they send out inspectors and harass businesses constantly, but especially when the businesses are down. Aldermen use it as a chance to try to put under a business whose owner they don’t like, and the mayor is afraid of any blowback from noncompliance. Aldermen make… Read more »
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
I always laugh whenever one of the aldermen or mayor get on the boob tube and proclaim that they are going to “help” businesses. Especially the favored “small businesses.” They really don’t care, but they know that you like to hear these words, because they know YOU like your neighborhood businesses. In truth, they send out inspectors and harass businesses constantly, but especially when the businesses are down. Aldermen use it as a chance to try to put under a business whose owner they don’t like, and the mayor is afraid of any blowback from noncompliance. Aldermen make… Read more »