Casino Ready!

We have no doubt that these fools are ready, willing and able to run a casino:

• The agency that runs McCormick Place and Navy Pier is deeply in debt because of a downturn in convention and tourism business and needs to overhaul its operations to climb its way out of the financial hole, a top official said Tuesday.

  John Gates Jr., Mayor Daley's choice to serve as board chairman of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, wasted no time in confronting the financial problems plaguing the agency known as McPier.

  "We are not collecting sufficient taxes to pay our debt service. The spread is $34 million a year. We're going to focus on getting our financial and operating house in order. We'll be meeting in two weeks to advance that process," Gates said, after chairing a monthly board meeting.

Run it into a brick wall that is. How do these people still have jobs? What furlough days are they taking?