Didn’t Believe me about patronage in Chicago?
March 6, 2008 — DarcsFalconIn a previous post, I mentioned how Chicago city officials often put friends and family members on the payroll, despite their not being qualified for the job. And this morning, I found this Patronage thrives as County Board votes new taxes in my local online newspaper. No doubt this occurs on some level in many major cities. It seems to me though, that having such practices under federal criminal investigation is pretty telling. “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know,” is alive and well in Chicago.
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March 6, 2008 at 9:30 am
Wouldn’t it be nice to live someplace NORMAL for a change? Where this sort of thing is really NEWS, instead of another “Oh, well, yeah — whattaya gonna do?” type thing?
And where there’s work to be had that pays well? And often? And permanently?
March 6, 2008 at 10:28 am
Sadly the whole “who you know and not what you know” reigns supreme everywhere. It’s stupid.
March 6, 2008 at 5:46 pm
It’s got me comin’ and goin’, Raga: I don’t know shit, and I don’t know nobody important, neither.
But I know YOU, and you’re AWESOME … so that makes up for everything.