He Said There Was No Money?

Does the media even read what they publish on a day to day basis? Shortshanks pulls all raises off the table one day, then he calls us greedy and says we ought to come back to the table even though he took his ball and went home, then he announces this crap:

• A draft of Chicago's plans for the city's central area through 2020 calls for $15.5 billion in public works, mostly for transportation improvements, and asserts the projects are attainable with or without the 2016 Olympics.

  The projects include a West Loop transit hub beneath Clinton Street with an estimated price tag of almost $6 billion. The hub would connect Metra and CTA rail and bus lines with a proposed Carroll Street rail line, itself a $260 million item, near the north bank of the Chicago River.

  Other big-ticket items include $1.5 billion for CTA express train service to the airports and a $500 million for a landscaped roof over the Kennedy Expy. from Monroe to Washington around which new office buildings could be added. A $377 million plan foresees moving part of Lake Shore Drive east from Navy Pier to the Oak Street curve, creating space for bike and pedestrian paths.

Our math might be a little off, but just canceling the $377 million plan to move Lake Shore Drive again could provide police with a 14% raise each year over the next 19 years and still leave room to increase the aldercreatures "discretionary" fund to $2 million a year.

No wonder the Sun Times is joining the Tribune in bankruptcy.