Sen. John McCain

The School money pit

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Does anyone else find it ironic that school superintendents and administration are being paid obscene salaries while the rest of us — who foot the bill — are losing our jobs at an alarming rate?

The Herald News on June 28 reported the salary of Channahon School District Superintendent Karin Evans was raised to $145,000 and Business Manager Michael Schroeder got a $30,000 raise to $120,000.

The district seems to be following the Joliet Grade School District. When no one stopped Superintendent Phyllis Wilson’s salary from jumping to $250,000, other school districts figured, “Hey, why not?”

When the average worker’s salary has been cut 10 percent to 15 percent and the unemployment rate is 10 percent, it’s sickening that school officials are getting big, fat raises. You cannot justify a $250,000 salary for a below average-performing school district. Nor can you justify a $30,000-a-year raise.

Pillaging of taxpayer dollars in Will County must stop. We’re all strapped for cash. My property taxes have increased more than $1,600 in two years to support these human leeches who suck our blood.

Those of you paid with taxpayer money need to remember the adage, “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.” Those who accept raises in this economy need to be fired. Period.  Soon there will be the screaming at voting time for more tax money and there will be them that votes for the higher taxes.

Tom Fitzgerald

Joliet

Joliet ¦ What the F@#K are you doing. My Rights.

Regular city inspections of rental properties could be expanded to single-family and owner-occupied homes under a proposal presented this week.

Inspection fees would double, triple and in some cases increase sevenfold under the proposal put before the city council’s land use committee on Tuesday.

Supporters of the plan say it is needed because growing numbers of single-family homes are being bought up and turned into rentals across the city as the real estate market stagnates.

The proposal was initiated by the Cathedral Area Preservation Association, a group known for its activism on neighborhood issues in the area of historic homes on the city’s near west side.

The new fee structure developed by city staff would increase the cost of an initial inspection on multifamily buildings from the current $60 to $175. The assortment of fees include an increase in the third re-inspection of a building from the current $80 to $300.  From The Herald <Spew> News

Comment By JolietJake2008

Being a property owner myself, I will just “Evict” my renters and make them homeless as will many other property owners around Joliet or I will add this on to the rent if these inspection fees are added.  Also  the city will be enforcing  a rule that requires landlords to open their tenants’ doors without permission and submit  to searches without the tennants knowlage…This makes it easier for the government to force its way into the homes of law-abiding citizens than it is to search the home of a suspected criminal.  The U.S. Constitution does not allow such an absurdity. The inspection of rental properties is only the first phase of the City’s plan to inspect all housing units.  If the City is not stopped, every resident  could face intrusive, unreasonable and expensive forced inspections of their homes as a condition of exercising their property rights.  Fortunately, the Supreme Court has repeatedly upheld the Fourth Amendment right to exclude the government from arbitrarily intruding into one’s home.  It is time for the state court in Illinois to do the same in this case.

To protect landlords, tenants and, ultimately, homeowners against searches that violate the Fourth Amendment, I suggest that Illinois ( Will County and Joliet) residents file a lawsuit under the U.S. and Illinois constitutions to stop the conducting or coercing consent to warrant-less inspections and also to ensure that constitutional standards govern residential inspections and rights are protected. I will call the ACLU when I get my first inspection notice.

I hate to tell you politicians that renters are voters and when your unwarranted inspections cost them a place to live or it costs renters to have to pay more in rent, their will be no question in my mind that they will vote your uneffective butts out of office and far as I am concerned these dumb asses should have been put out to pasture years ago.

ACORN Rent-A-Mob Thugs to Harass Lenders in 14 Cities Tuesday

From the blogosphere By Matthew Vadum

ACORN, which played a starring role in creating the subprime mortgage crisis, plans to add insult to injury by harassing lenders across the nation with protests tomorrow in an effort to coerce them into supporting President Obama’s Making Home Affordable foreclosure-avoidance program. Austin King, director of ACORN Financial Justice, sent out a press release today advising of the demonstrations that are planned as part of its “Homewrecker 4″ campaign. The four financial companies targeted are Goldman Sachs, HomEq Servicing, American Home Mortgage, and OneWest. ACORN plans to hit Dallas, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, St. Louis, New York City, Wilmington (Del.), Columbus (Ohio), Houston, Little Rock, Boston, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, and Illinois (Joliet and Chicago). But let’s not forget that ACORN helped to cause the mortgage bubble by strongarming banks into making loans they shouldn’t have. And cheering them on was ACORN’s lawyer, Barack Obama, who contributed to the increasingly hostile environment for banks when he represented plaintiffs in the 1995 class action lawsuit Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank. The suit demanded that Citibank grant mortgages to an equal percentage of minority and non-minority mortgage applicants. The bank settled the case three years later and reportedly agreed to beef up its lending to unqualified applicants. ACORN refuses to acknowledge the role that it and the CRA played in the current crisis on Wall Street, and President Obama continues to support stronger enforcement of the disastrous law. The final paragraph of the press release is unintentionally hilarious: Because millions of Americans are losing their homes, neighborhoods and the economy are in ruins, and while the “Home Wrecker 4″ are taking tax dollars and giving away huge bonuses, they refuse to do even the bare minimum for American homeowners by signing up for the Obama foreclosure plan. Millions of Americans are losing their homes and neighborhoods and the economy are in ruins because of groups like ACORN that interfere with markets and force banks to do stupid things. And ACORN too has taken in millions of dollars in taxpayer funding and is utterly unaccountable. The group even covered up a million dollar embezzlement for eight years. As I’ve said before, ACORN lies, lies, and then lies so more. No lie is too big or outrageous for the criminal group now charged in Nevada with voter registration fraud.