la hanging out here on a monday morning it is the first day after daylight savings time so and i will take your calls why not let's do it let's go to mark on line one here mark how are y dollars that we don't need here so you know when you figure our taxes yet we go through the thread and get back i called up the commissioner and he said that we don't get nowhere he of some country three quarters in a way around the world all right good point mark thanks a lot we heart too by the way as far as i understand i listened to an excellent interview yesterday with john mccain and he said that he actually was basically saying we need to rebuild their economy so that they can basically fight off russia all that means is money right to spring is a ton of money here we are he's right we're talking about four million dollars six hundred some thousand could have gone to hammond a couple mil to lake county hundreds of thousands of gary but instead are going to give it to the d a which is basically controlled by the governor right chicago it's already there why don't we work on trying to improve what we already have before we start trying to expand one nine hundred ten technology and you know i don't think it's changed much and maybe it's part of there maybe that would be something to be able to talk about there's still no express train anytime any of the trains go through the turn at kensington to get into the into the metric tracks it slows down to a crawl there's consistency issues what about the funding what's the operational component of how are they spending these dollars i mean to me it's fine and i get it and i see what they're doing and everybody elects the same folks and it's a jobs program so it's going to be putting a lot of people to work and that's exactly what this is all about but  let's put them to work in sustainable long term careers as opposed to just another public project to you know be available for two years and that's it you know i'm a little surprised that you are so looking so askance at the extension of the train and part of that is that i know that you work downtown for a long time i did took the train some time did and you know sort of i took the train drove up to be for drove the skyway the best way i've ever commuted was when i lived in griffith over there behind kmart venture and they had a boss i walked out took the boss wants straight to chicago and dropped me off right there and i walked back home it was great it was almost similar to having a train run through your neighborhood but then they got had an accident or whatever and the guy got in trouble or so nobody knows and there's no money and somebody was so souter's i think they had an accident in indianapolis or something but anyways the you worked in the city of chicago and you know that all these guys that you worked with they've come out they get on a train they go north they go north west they could go directly west they could go south why or they could go directly south or they could come around the lake and they could go away east the one and only spoke of missing from all of that is that they couldn't go southeast and that is through our neighborhoods there's no train they go from the state line all the way to valparaiso that is a dead zone and there's no train that cuts through there and i think that over time there's nothing but farmers down there what are you talking about down towards valpo and there is a spoke it's called the so sure how does how does your goes east it doesn't go south east through lake county it doesn't do that it is the one area of the chicago metropolitan area that's missing something now i agree with you it's a jobs program i agree with some of these people saying although you know the mayor coming in here and ripping on the times that they're just they're losing all objectivity and they're just promoting it i mean less left no pun intended but yeah i don't know about that but i do know that a lot of these areas and you take the train out there i remember when i bought a guy a car from a guy to page wholeheartedly disagree and say that that's the answer because i think one of the things that since i've been home that i've observed here is everybody's looking for the home run the reason give me give us the one project that's going to be able to solve all the problems and you know what it's just not out there it's an unrealistic you know you know plan to say that there's one thing that's going to solve the problems and i think the you know this train is it i mean for a that's a billion dollars and we know if they move forward on this it's going to be more than a half a billion dollars because they haven't forecasted one project on ever so it's going to be more than a half a billion dollars so one question would be what else could happen with that money to try to have those jobs in lake county as opposed to spending money to move people out to go get good try to hold on there's a good question what else could happen so i don't know i guess the u s should question right you know the answer well and you know don't bring up the problem unless you have a solution we keep having this discussion all the time so if you're going to have somebody gives you a half billion dollars and i say our banker here it is we're going to do first thing we're going to do is be able to bring in some companies they're going to be able to hire people in prior year and provide those types of jobs and it can't be the same three companies that have been on the lake shore since one thousand nine hundred ten the same time the train came on board so by the way the last time i checked three of those for our own by foreign companies so part of it and i think you know the times and even though we make fun of them i mean they had that edition yesterday that has the segment about perspectives and i think if everybody has the chance to either pick up yesterday's times before it's gone or look on line i mean i think it's definitely worth a read because it's very challenging to get through it let me tell you but go ahead and take a look at it because it's providing some of the thought processes that are out there that folks are looking towards ring jobs you want to bring the kind of companies now i'm telling you i had to drive to madison on friday to pick up my daughter and i had to take her back yesterday so i went out on eighty eight i want out on ninety company after company  high paying jobs class structures off the highway and then you could see behind them there's even more companies there are big jobs that way in eighty eight ninety areas where they have trains also by the way and none of that comes here ever we have amazing pieces of property along to the borman where now it's just going to be cabello isn't wal mart or it could have been some sort of regional health headquarters del webb who knows what it could have been but nobody wants to come here so if you had a half billion dollars or not i don't think you're going to be able to do that who is going to want to bring their company that hasn't already looked at us and said i don't want to go there well you know and that's true and you know the human you know the human animal has to get factored in as these theoretical discussions because you know i mean let's face it i mean i did office leasing in the loop and a lot of it has to do with where the senior partner or the owner of the company lives and what's best for him i mean it's you know it is what it is because i mean you could put together the best economic package heck i've seen it here with regards to economic development plans you put together the best financial plan for that company and it's the best for that company and they still don't take it because the barrington and he's not moving his company because he lives in barrington and that's that's ok that's his prerogative it's his company but you have to factor those types of things in as well because you know the more i listen to your radio station jimmy the more i'm seeing the majority of people who call in they don't like rich people people with money are not something that are embraced if you don't have everybody wants more money everybody wants more you know earn more money they want to have higher wages they want to have they want to make more but we don't want to bring people in with more money unless there's fresh money moving into the area we're going to have some challenges and then what it does is your next the fault is let the taxpayer fill that void let's go to george on line for hey george what's up it's not that they don't like rich people they don't like to have to subsidize the richness of the rich people you know that's what they don't like and when you get all east when you get that full bloom doggle here is nothing but a niche marketing effort to see the area so that real real estate realtors real risk they developers and bankers can concern some profits we don't know why is there is no real necessity to build that into dire there isn't i mean it's nice you can create a market fine you create some commercial activity that's fine but with like with respect to what you were just saying earlier bill what about the some said what about some sizing that train the cost of that at the time i property as opposed to zero i mean because every don't get our train we're not going to apply what was you know this argument that you're using is the same argument that was used when they ran it to do page county when they ran it to the northwest suburbs when they ran it said when they ran it down to joliet when he ran the metro down the state line all of those arguments that were having problems that illinois having right now you know well they also have a much higher standard of living in a lot of these areas where the they have a much higher standard of living