Oh, please
Wednesday, Nov 4, 2015 - Posted by Rich Miller
* The DePaulia…
It wasn’t business as usual Monday morning as hundreds showed up to march through Chicago’s Financial District for this week’s #MoralMonday protest, where demonstrators gathered to fight Gov. Bruce Rauner’s proposed budget. […]
“People are taking to the streets and shutting down the Board of Trade today because we can’t cut any more services,” Buck said. “We are in crisis and that is why we are here today.”
Dude, you didn’t shut down the Board of Trade. You blocked a doorway for a few minutes.
- so... - Wednesday, Nov 4, 15 @ 1:10 pm:
There are dozens of us!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKie-vgUGdI
- Weltschmerz - Wednesday, Nov 4, 15 @ 1:15 pm:
The taxing of trades has been an old favorite since Hector and I were pups. The story goes that when one of the mayors visited the Board of Trade and threatened to do it, one of the executives walked over to the wall and unplugged a phone and set it on the table.
- Give Me A Break - Wednesday, Nov 4, 15 @ 1:21 pm:
It would appear The Storming of the Bastille didn’t quite gather the interest of the masses as planned.
- Ducky LaMoore - Wednesday, Nov 4, 15 @ 1:23 pm:
=== You blocked a doorway for a few minutes. ===
Isn’t it just lovely when people can take an issue important to you and make us all look like amateur dopes. Thanks.
- Huh? - Wednesday, Nov 4, 15 @ 1:23 pm:
What??? Nobody in the group telling the governor to “hang in there”??? Where was the universal love and support that the governor boasts about?
- train111 - Wednesday, Nov 4, 15 @ 1:36 pm:
They must be getting instruction from the Jeanne Ives school of chest thumping.
- Educated in the Suburbs - Wednesday, Nov 4, 15 @ 1:44 pm:
There are tens and tens of us!
- The Velour Nail - Wednesday, Nov 4, 15 @ 1:50 pm:
Lame, kind of like the occupy folks who used to march through bank branches on LaSalle and try to shut down the LaSalle Street bridge at “rush hour”. They lack enough brain power to understand why their strategy is faulty and their stated goal(s), to the extent there are any, make no sense if one even wanted to try and explain.
- Been There - Wednesday, Nov 4, 15 @ 1:58 pm:
Weltschmerz is right about the shortsightedness of those who think there are billions to be made in taxing the board. If any town should do it, it should be Aurora. I think that’s where their main computers are that the trades actually happen at. And they can move those anywhere, anytime.
- Ben Franklin - Wednesday, Nov 4, 15 @ 2:36 pm:
The majority of Americans are apathetic. In fact George Washington had a difficult time recruiting soldiers to fight during the Revolutionary War
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Nov 4, 15 @ 3:30 pm:
Bullhorn: “WHAT DO WE WANT?!!
The People: “NO CLUE”
Bullhorn: “WHEN DO WE WANT IT?!”
The People: “NOW!!”
- walker - Wednesday, Nov 4, 15 @ 3:40 pm:
Due to hard infrastructure needs, that cannot just pick up and move anywhere. However around five or six years ago there were reportedly about ten truly legitimate site alternatives in the US. There are probably many more now.
- scott aster - Wednesday, Nov 4, 15 @ 5:32 pm:
They build another datacenter wherever the fiber ca ble is with big bandwith….that does cost $$$$$ so they just make a simple comparison. Not high level math.
- Rollo Tamasi - Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 12:09 am:
When your life is somewhat meaningless and you have to give it purpose you have to make stuff up.
- Dome Gnome - Thursday, Nov 5, 15 @ 2:59 am:
Framing greed in a moral context? We’ll see more of this.