I’m calling regarding the comment from Red from Chicago on stop-and-frisk. Most of the shooting that we hear about in the Chicago area are from drive-by shooters in cars. Is he proposing that we stop all cars on the streets to frisk? What a traffic jam that would be. Wake up, Red, and get real.
It’s interesting how the sports writers write to glorify the Chicago Cubs because this is the first team of the Cubs that’s won a hundred games in a season since somewhere back in the 1930s. Well, in the 1930s they only played 154 games. It took this team 156 games to win a hundred but that’s how they twist statistics around in sports. Statistics are meaningless to me.
Pete, Chicago
Our forefathers were brave and intelligent. They made beautiful laws about being a U.S. citizen. One thing they overlooked is the most important. To vote, you should be a taxpaying person instead of being a taker, always living on the take. They should have passed laws that you should be a taxpayer to be able to vote. In any U.S. corporation you must have an interest in that organization by being a shareholder or whatever to vote. People now are not shareholders. They’re takers. We have to take care of the useless and forget about the useful. Wake up. Have people pay income tax and have an interest in the United States.
Bill, Chicago Heights
What’s the most comfortable temperature for seniors in apartments where landlords control heat? What do they do when they have arthritis or ache when getting up in the morning? These building owners are comfortable, setting their heat what they want, but not setting comfortable heat for tenants. Yet, they collect money and charge for the heat on top of it. When you get up in the morning and it’s like 60 degrees inside the apartment, his answer is “It’s cold. Put on a sweater.” When you say, “It’s warmer outside than inside,” he says, “Then sit outside.” Why don’t they pass laws so people can have heat in their apartments? Why do they have to suffer until a certain date?
Regarding the argument about Chicago schools not having the necessary supplies to teach children and the overcrowded classrooms: Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis still wants bigger pensions paid for by the city and more money for the teachers. They talk about getting real estate taxes raised to pay for it. While they’re doing that they say, “Oh, it’s for the children,” when actually they’re eating all the money up for the teachers. Maybe we should take a look into how much we’re spending on the administration of these classrooms and how much we’re cheating the supply end for the children and the teachers having too many kids in a room to be able to keep control and teach them.
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