Spike:

Well, you can take the people out of Chicago but you sure as hell can’t take Chicago out of the people.

The Ghetto at 1628 Dodge is still a replica of south side Chicago through the inhabitant’s use of fireworks Saturday night and then leaving the trashy byproducts littering Dodge Street.

Since 1628 and 1626 Dodge was rented to the “New” workers Burlington lured into moving from Chicago, our neighborhood has been blasted with rap music at all hours of the day and night. On a regular basis it’s not unusual to find trash and used condoms littering the yards of neighbors in the vicinity.

The owner of this Ghetto lives in the 600 block of 7th Street, far enough away that they could care less how their tenants have ruined a once nice, family orientated, quite neighborhood.

Now, one of the perpetrators of this mess has seen fit to cut and run after ruining Burlington as did Slagle by high tailing it out of town where he’ll probably ruin another city before it’s all over and I would assume his pockets are full as all Burlington’s leaders pockets usually are when they run. This particular person had been running South East Iowa Regional Planning in the destruction of Burlington for the past 17 years and he did a good job of surrogating Burlington to Louisa County where they get the workers for Tyson and Burlington gets all the headaches and cost for turning Burlington into the new sister city of East St. Louis.

Of course he had the slumlords right in his pocket to house the new “Burlington Workers” regardless of how these new arrivals would destroy our way of life, quality of life, neighborhoods, schools, increase in crime and so on. There are few if any neighborhoods that haven’t been impacted by SEIRPC, Burlington Government, The Chamber, and all the other feel good organizational destroyers of Burlington. Not one of these organizations upheld the right of the people they destroyed when throwing them out of the Manor a project run by ignorant, stupid people and aren’t these the same people in the above organizations.

One thing we do know is Burlington is the slum of East Iowa and will soon displace East St. Louis in quality of life, schools, local government, crime, jobs and a host of other measurable statistics used to rate cities. I can hardly wait until Burlington can be recognized as the number one slum city of Iowa. They’ve worked hard a obtaining this honor.

One thing for sure, none of the above organizations has done anything lately but drive the destruction of Burlington one new surrogate worker at a time.

Disheartened

Spike:
Well, our socialist city government again raised the rates for water, sewer, trash, and storm water. Why the hell should we be paying storm water fees when storm water is an act of nature and has nothing to do with anything, hell we don’t even use it? And it doesn't work on top of that. Ask the West Jefferson Street business owners.

The board of waterworks trustees is nothing more than a rubber stamp for the unions running the city and constantly stealing from the taxpayer in order to live the good life no matter how many lives they destroy in the process. This city is the ultimate of deceitfulness all the way down the line with some of the worst public servants known to man.

When will the people wake up and realize the Democrats are the biggest tax and spend losers walking our city streets. They are half brain dead and can never recover common sense or accountability, their just plain thieves.

Burlington citizens really need to consider outsourcing many of the city departments so our money isn’t spent to cover the rubber stamp union contracts, raises, bonuses, free medical care and just plain paying off these city unions to be good and nice as they steal us blind and city management just rolls over as the good little union dogs they are.

By outsourcing the water works, trash, street repair and other services we could save untold millions and finally have someone that’s responsible and accountable rather than the dead beats currently in charge.

We are being plundered by city government and the sooner we get rid of the losers the better off we’ll be. We have no bang for our buck at all, in fact the city is stealing our meager earnings to fill their pockets and live the life of Riley at taxpayer expense.

How many private firms in Burlington give their employees the cash if they don’t want company benefits? That’s common practice in local government where they steal every penny they can to stuff their employees pockets. There are city employees and county employees stuffing the banks full of taxpayer money because they don’t take the benefits. This is probably how Heland and others run up their retirement funds by stealing from the taxpayer.

This whole local government just makes me sick and I have no respect for any of them because their stealing our money for their own personal gain while providing very little in return.

Verydissatisfied

Funny you should mention storm water. We have obtained reports from two reliable sources that say the Lucas Street storm sewer is half full of mud and the city did nothing about it during construction.

Although not being a seasoned engineer or half-baked, incompetent city works director, it seems that when you plug the toilet and flush the toilet again, shi* happens. Now if we're wrong, email us. Tell us what we missed in class on fluid dynamics.

Spike

Spike,

"Mr. Hynes shakes his head. “This is not some esoteric budget issue; we are not paying bills for absolutely essential services,” he says. “That is obscene.”

Illinois is broke. Borrow and spend eventually comes to a ruinous end.

Iowa is in the hole. Senators Fraise and Coutney along with Representative Cahoon spent like Heland and Hoshcek. Iowa has not reached Illinois level of desperation. If we re-elect Governor Culver and keep our current team in the Legislature, we could get there.

Worse yet, America is being run by those wonderful people put Illinois where it is today. The Cook County crooks probably think America is too big to fail. So was Illinois.

No person, no company, and no unit of government can live on credit forever.

AS