Did we mention Friends of Rahm? I’m glad you asked. One of the biggest nuts in this zero-sum game (for tax-payers, that is) is the Board giving away money to further privatize engineering and custodial services. But both of the companies that have been given more schools for said services – Aramark and Sodexo – are publicly traded companies whose end game (even if it is zero-sum for the rest of us) are profits for their shareholders (Sodexo has gone from $42 to over $100 since 2000, while Aramark has gone from mid-20s to mid-30s since 2014). Talk about growth! (But never you mind the repairs made to your schools because neither of these private juggernauts will be absorbing any of it!)

But how do they do that? They pay attention to the bottom line and to them the bottom line is further padded by devouring services in the government sector. I don’t have the statistics on-hand, nor do I have the intellectual-wherewithal to search them out (the truth is I’m really just lazy because I feel like no one is paying attention, I like results!), but why would we allow private companies whose soul purpose is to bang out a profit? Who wins in these situations?? Further, by announcing a plan to implement the complete privatization of engineers within the next two years, what happens to the pension payments of the 500 or so engineers currently paying into the pension? Either they rush to the exits to retire, or the ones with no time in will take their little nut out and, if lucky enough to find the best investment vehicle without being taxed (see: Roths vs. Traditional IRAs). But what happens to all of that money is pulled out at once, via-retirement or early-withdrawl? Well, it sounds like the biggest pension funds absorbs the hit of 500 people leaving the system.

While that might not make for 1928 all over again, it makes for a very significant amount to be made up. And that is very interesting because just today, Rahm bragged about his latest hair-brained scheme to put the Municipal fund back on a path to 90% solvency in 40 years. Now I am understanding useful degree in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College is. It teaches a smarmy little-man all the right moves. Useful to him, but utterly useless for us.

Oh, and does the Northshore-bred boogie man care if any of the private employees working in the have to work in the city? Or does he just not care? My guess is that Cawley talked him into this one. (Where is Cawley these days? Hiding in his Winnetka closet with a lugar to his jugular if we are lucky to have the Feds on him like BBB!)

Okay, that is the end of this rant. I just want to say that never before have I seen this city in so much chaos. He literally sunk the whole damn thing. And this doesn’t even touch the surface of withholding the Laquan McDonald tape so he could get re-elected, or the asinine practice of allowing any and all private contractors to tear up every street, everywhere, all at once.

Keep up the good fight Troy. And to the rest of you, start fighting. We cannot have this horrible little man destroy our city any further.

And Rahm, if you’re reading this, may you rot in hell. I know you don’t believe in such a place, at least not for someone of your esteemed ilk, but if there is a God, may you be stuck deep within the bowels of it for eternity. You are a bad man (and not in the Flava-Flav street sense).

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