Chicago and its parking meter deal

"Lipstick on a pig"--more like "hogs at the trough"--

Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Mayor, parking meter deal - chicagotribune.com: "The mayor acknowledges this proposal is lipstick on a pig. The awful 2008 contract gets worse with every reading of it, but it most likely cannot be undone. And if it could be, the city has already spent the money and doesn't have a spare billion or two to buy out the company anyway. . . . Yes, the city apparently is on the hook to pay $1 billion to a company that paid the city ... $1.2 billion. It sounds like the mayor's team has substantially reduced a frightening city obligation. But here's what keeps gnawing at us. If this deal is so good financially for the city, why would Chicago Parking Meters LLC agree to it? Fool me twice ...."


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Gitmo consumes $900,000 per prisoner annually

‘Astronomical costs’: Gitmo consumes $900,000 per prisoner annually — RT News: "Maintenance of Guantanamo has been revealed to cost over $150 million each year, with immediate estimates citing it one of the most expensive prisons in the world. This comes as the hunger strike at the detention facility is far from over. Follow RT’s day-by-day timeline of the Gitmo hunger strike. The prison camp situated at the US naval base in Cuba costs over $900,000 annually per prisoner, placing it far above the country’s maximum security prisons, which in comparison, cost $60,000 to $70,000 per prisoner. With 166 detainees, Gitmo devours over $150 million each year."

Is this stimulus spending?

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Susan Rice Honored With Great American Award Night Before Benghazi Hearing

Susan Rice? What a joke! What an ego, what a liar!

Susan Rice Honored With 'Great American' Award Night Before Benghazi Hearing: "The evening gala and awards ceremony, which included Vice President Joe Biden, came the day before State Department whistleblowers testified at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the terrorist attack that took place at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi last year. "What happened in Benghazi was in fact initially a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired hours before in Cairo, almost a copycat of the demonstrations against our facility in Cairo, which were prompted, of course, by the video,” Rice erroneously stated on NBC’s Meet the Press--one of the five Sunday talk shows she appeared on five days after the attack."

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