Headline: County approves budget with 321 layoffs. Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle previously said there would have to be layoffs because of the soda tax repeal. So now, over 300 staff employees in various departments will lose their jobs. Now, Preckwinkle is remorseful. She feels so sorry about it. Maybe if these same Democrats didn’t misuse our tax dollars, none of this would be necessary. Maybe now these 321 employees and others who automatically vote Democrat will finally realize how much their leaders and union bosses really care about them.
Bob, Oak Forest
I was watching the Thanksgiving football game in Detroit. What an impressive indoor stadium they have. How did we allow the governmental knuckleheads in Chicago to construct that grossly inadequate eyesore on the lake called Soldier Field?
Evergreen Park
If the Republicans didn’t have a double standard, they wouldn’t have any standards at all.
Oak forest, if we can spend and waste trillions on defense and senseless, never ending wars, we can educate our youth and give our citizens health care. Maybe President Donald Trump can stop costing us millions with his golf trips. Think of how many people can get health insurance with those millions.
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