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That we have to be clear-eyed and face head-on. what do you say to that? there have been irresponsible officials beating up on former mayor daley in chicago. he didn t make payments. look, it s not just pensions. cities sign deals all the time. mayor daley in chicago signed a deal with morgan stanley turning over operation of parking meters for 75 years and probably got half, if even that of what he should have gotten on a fair deal. that s the way governments work. you make long-term contracts. you want transparency and you want to see that people in this case make the commitments, make the payments that they re supposed to make. daley s case, incredible story. here s this guy, he went a decade without making payments to the pension funds. he obviously knew what he was today and today goes around, on corporate boards, foundation boards. this guy is the bernie madoff of big city mayors but he s touted to the sky. so, you know, you do have irresponsible people. no doubt about it. ye ....
Cities sign deals all the time. mayor daley in chicago signed a deal with morgan stanley turning over operation of parking meters for 75 years and probably got half, if even that of what he should have gotten on a fair deal. that s the way governments work. you make long-term contracts. you want transparency and you want to see that people in this case make the commitments, make the payments that they re supposed to make. daley s case, incredible story. here s this guy, he went a decade without making payments to the pension funds. he obviously knew what he was today and today goes around, on corporate boards, foundation boards. this guy is the bernie madoff of big city mayors but he s touted to the sky. so, you know, you do have irresponsible people. no doubt about it. yeah. i think the point here, lee, and dean, is really important is that when those promises were made, if they were made irresponsibly, they were made by someone who aren t the 19,000 pensioners in detroit struggling ....
That s what it does and prides itself on doing. low cost goods and services and jobs. and it is amazing because what what the democrats and the liberals who are anti-walmart are saying is we would rather these folks stay unemployed than work at walmart. so this same kind of fight occurred in chicago. it had a happier ending because richard daly, then the mayor, vetoed the bill. how did things turn out? well, it turned out fine. that battle waged for a long time. have you about eight walmart stores zbl stores. inside the city. yes. daley said something vicinitying. we never object to the stores opening in the suburbs why are we opposed to them opening in the city. that gets to jason s point about jobs and need for these jobs in the inner city and why is there that sort of thing? there s something else here interest being the minimum wage because you have a tacit ....
An excerpt from a terrorist encyclopedia. now scrambled politics. another daley says he s exploring a bid for governor next year. his father and brother are both former mayors of chicago. approval ratings for president george w. bush are back in positive territory for the first time since 2005. according to gallop, 49% of americans now view mr. bush favorably, that s up nine point from when he left office. vice president biden will restart a push for gun reform next week touting the administration s progress in combatting gun violence. elsewhere on that front, new york s mayor bloomberg wants to hit four democratic senators where it hurts. their wallets. bloomberg is sending personal letters today to hundreds of the ....
Weapons, they ve been banned since 1933. yes, they have. then if you say semiautomatic weapons, oh, you re coming after my pistol. so whatever they want to call it, there are a lot of cops on the street. there are a lot of gun-control advocates who do believe universal background check combined with a chuck trafficking ltraffiough trafficking law that stops you from selling a gun out of your trunk. daley has been saying for years in chicago if the atf came into chicago and went to the inner city and busted the drug lords on taxes, they could shut down a lot of what s going on. that s what they need to do. that s what they need to do as well. it s about more than just an element. it s about the whole composite. and it s about the dialogue continuing beyond that. all right. final question for chuck, mika? i was just going to say, it seems like it would be impossible to come up with any legislation that addresses what you re talking about and so people give up before you even ....