Waste of Money

How about looking for ways to reduce our freaking taxes you idiots:

• Chicago Aldermen are looking for ways the City might be able to help keep alive the weekly publication, StreetWise, sold by the homeless.

And then some truly moronic statements are made:

• At a City Council hearing on Wednesday, mother of two Patricia Tillman said if StreetWise goes under, so does the income—and training—that have helped her family stay off the streets.

So if Streetwise goes under, you lose all that training? Someone is hitting the crack pipe awfully hard if you can forget the "training" that turned your life around. How about taking some of that "training" and applying it to a better paying endeavor?

And finally, an aldercreature almost makes some sense of it all:

• Alderman Manny Flores, who called for the hearings, says they City—and the StreetWise board—should be leery of any government sponsorship of an independent newspaper.

"government sponsorship of an independent newspaper." Isn't that a description of the Sun Times?