Mayor Daley spends $18 million in taxpayer money a year on people who don’t work

There is wasteful spending in the city budget– and I’m not talking about Chicago Police officers who abandon their posts to have sex with women while they should be on duty. Last week, the city’s Inspector General Joseph Ferguson found $18 million that could easily be trimmed from the budget.

The city of Chicago employs a taxi service, 200 unionized city truck drivers, to drive city crews to and from job sites. Your street has a pothole that needs repair? A city crew of five will come out to make the repair. Four will actually work on the repair, while one sits in the truck reading the newspaper.

After the repair of the pothole is complete, the same crew moves on to fix something else in another neighborhood. The crew packs up the truck and our taxi driver goes back into action, driving the crew to its next job. When the crew gets there, the same four exit the truck and make the repair, while one stays behind listening to AM sports talk radio.

The job of city crew taxi driver is one that costs Chicago taxpayers $90,000.00 annually in total compensation. $90,000 for a person who works a couple hours a day; $90,000 for a person who watches other city employees earn their paychecks.

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