If you live in Chicago or really the Chicago metroland area, you know how “great” government can be at solving problems to the services they are required to provide based on the fact they charge us up the whazzooo in taxes for supposedly doing these things. Case in point – Chicago’s pothole problem.

Driving on the roads in Chicago lately is like going on Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride minus the I’m-scared-but-not-really-scared-that-I’m-laughing howls in delight. Then couple this with the fact that the local government at the direction of financial geniuses, like Richard “Mayor McCheese” Daley and Todd “I’m making citizens pay $1 million for the worst PR ever” Stoger, have pissed away all the tax revenue we’ve provided and it’s no surprise the instant rage you suffer when see firsthand how the city is choosing to fix these pothole problems (kudos to my friend Laura for getting the evidence):

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Gee, I think I see everything in there but the kitchen sink. And oh, yeah, a #$%#$%@#$@# proper solution to cost-effectively repairing tax-funded roads. HULK. MAD.

Yeah, the next time one of my liberal friends starts yammering on about how responsible government is at effectively managing services and/or budgets I’m just going to take this exact picture and slap them across the face with it. Because clearly, somebody needs some common sense smacked into them.

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