obviously being mentioned like thirty times on the air he still doesn't get it he said he never saw the city of hammond have their plows down kind of have you was he out there watching this and how he knew and if he did how many doesn't have anything good to say especially about the city of family or the mayor there some kind of there's a hatred there to mcdermott for whatever reason and the same goes along with the day from crown point who seems to know about more about the city of ham and the goings on there than he does about his own town but that's here nor there is what he called short bus bob doesn't get it he's either hard of hearing or you just not very bright how many times do you have to be told that tell you an avenue is a state road before you finally get it before in saying that you cripple local government to the point that it's basically starved and then you have a blizzard with a foot snow on the ground then you can expect all that snow just to go away in an instant well not only did we have fourteen inches of snow we had a deep freeze for two days after that which we haven't had i don't know the combination of the two if we've ever had anything that extreme in a long time so it was harder to get the snow removed it is a bigger city there are homes in him and if you look at other communities a lot of those homes specially the north side don't have driveways they have alleys so there's nowhere to put the cars they don't have the parking restrictions they do in other towns where they have you know if the snow is an inch you have their two inches whatever it is you have to have your cars off the street you can't do then hammond because people don't have anywhere for them to go exactly and i grew up in him and i can tell you how many times and i'm forty three that i have to shovel out cars and sidewalks when the plows did come by it's been going on for years it's not make dermot's fault that it's snow fourteen inches and there was a deep freeze where the pa drivers supposed to put the snow there's no magic melter they just drive by and you know somebody snap their fingers and the snow goes away i'm telling there's potholes and there's snow and there's cars buried in every town and city in northwest and then i thanks a lot brian baker is he the mayor proud of a good point the more you starve the local government you know you can except you know you know these these folks in these local governments are expected to operate extremely efficiently now snout like they have the extra people laying around hammond's street department by fifty percent since my cousin was the mare that in the end has an effect now in illinois where they've remained regularly bloated they did a significantly better job on most of the roads the bigger roads and part of that is that someone sold brother lost and a truck read the paper most of the time when it might snow then when it doesn't always ready to go so you really can't have it both ways you know what i mean my mind this is an effect of starving local government and lower taxes on the indiana side it shows up a little bit when we have snow removal you are so wrong it's not even funny that's the first time that ever happened yeah i mean are we you know this snow sheer hello i mean but you can't look at it from the perspective at least in my opinion that you know this is the whole thing having to do with taxes i mean this is a symptom of a larger issue i mean are we going to continue as we've done for decades and focus on the symptom or are we going to spokes on the cause now if you think the cause is starving of local government you know that's fine but then all of a sudden you have to set the priorities in my opinion as far as what you're going to do you have to do this in any organization what are the where are the resources going to go to the most efficient for what the goal is for that that operation so you know again here in northwest indiana we're densely populated towards you know the northwest part of the county i mean that's where everybody is but we have forty seven municipalities and you know this whole thing with the state the state the state i mean we all drive on that road i don't care if you're in hammond months or highland griffith's chicago whiting i mean here you all drive on the state roads why are we looking at it for this is our neighborhood let's take care of the state road to worry about who pays and who does it after the with fact that we've moved all the snow and fixed all the potholes i get really frustrated from that perspective because wait a minute and then if we're going to blaming the state and you know united had this conversation before and it isn't to defend the state but you know we have to take care of our own house let's take care of our own house in less time i checked we send people down to the state that represent some of our concerns how come you're not calling them i mean instead of everybody blaming the state it's like the governor's the one out here driving the truck really hyland had the same complaint you know the mayor starts talking about it these guys are calling over it could have probably had people calling from every municipality saying the state really didn't do their job but in the end part of that is is is i n the end what we choose here in northwest indiana we choose lower taxes and illinois we choose a number of different communities in other words if months or had their streets mostly closed open and there were problems  hammond in the most efficient use of the resources if you were from thirty thousand feet which you so graciously use that ridiculous analogy all the time you sit up at thirty thousand feet or you feel you're saying there's four trucks over here their streets are clean there's only seven trucks in this huge community here why don't those guys go over here well we're not set up that way we're all these little different communities our structure and our thriftiness comes through when we have a real problem we have a lot of money out here what part of that don't you remember i mean go to the notebook from the perspective of there's a lot of money up where where how about all the money that comes off of the boats how about all the money from the you know the aspect of that we have a half a million people that live here i mean it's a densely populated area now granted there is some ifs and buts and there is always an exception to everything but you're right i do like thirty thousand feet because sometimes you have to look at it you can't look at what's happening on the corner of first and elm every time sometimes you have to look at the entire it to and you have to make some decisions based on that is somebody's going to be unhappy by all means that's and that's what makes politics so difficult in an elected officials in my opinion so difficult because somebody always upset ok now here we are you are correct in that we have a decent amount of money appear still even with the the crippling of government but how we choose to use our resources is inefficient very inefficient because we have all these everyone's got their own head of streets everyone's got their own chief of police everyone's got their own fire department and i keep telling folks is listen that's the charm of living in northwest indiana you drive down ridge road you don't even realize that you've driven into four communities going from jewel over to cayman high school ok that's four communities i drove my buddy down that road one time and a centralized power structure for that kind of you know water and and flooding and quite frankly i think that's a i think that's a good thing it should be done that way but i'm telling you that if you if you you know we have area white crime  got their own little police departments in our own little fiefdom and you have area white snowplow you have very white snow but you have everybody doing their own little snow in their own little area you have the state the county and seventeen little different towns doing it that is an inefficient sources we have to accept the challenge is one we have difficult things that come to our area because we are so segregated difficult decisions need to be made from that but nobody wants to make a difficult decision even talk about it well because you have to run for the next election and it's all about getting elected from that perspective any less you know more than two out of ten show up that's what you're going to continue to get because you said it yourself it's part of the charm around here well it's inefficient but it's charm we also have the discussion that in the stealth isn't the best way to move forward so if this is the way it's always been why are we going to sign on to that because this is you know charming this is the way it's been we'll you know what let's face it we're still running in my opinion everything as if everyone lives north of ridge road and work site at the lake shore that's how you know our government is set up in my opinion and i just think we're starting to move away the rest of the country and the rest of the market and society in general is moving forward i mean we're still happy when we're putting stuff on the internet are you kidding me i mean this is this is a real challenge from the standpoint of mistakes and this is the way we've always done it to say ok how do we move forward and how do we go about using the dollars that we have more efficiently i mean snow is a perfect example you remember this one i mean i could put a bunch of people in my driveway with a little sand shovel i could have twenty five people out there they're busy with that same shovel shovel in my snow they work in really hard and i applaud that but is that the most efficient way in today's world to shovel the driveway