It seems like the stimulus money was supposed to get us some jobs? Well that’s great for those who already work for these companies. Did these companies hire any additional workers? If they did, was it from Job Service, word of mouth, or the union halls? Was the extra help needed taken from Chicago and their surrounding areas?

I don’t know, but it seems like a lot of work going on, and I am still out of work!
I can hold a sign! I can point the cement trucks to the place they need to be!
I speak semi good English too, the best District 205 has to offer!

I wonder as well, about all the projects not being manned each day. Did only a few companies get the job for the whole city?
Are they stretching the jobs so that they have work all summer, and then all winter, rather than letting go of some of those funds for other able bodied skilled workers that may need to make a rent payment?

I am just wondering. I drive past the workers and wave with a smile. I drive by the striking Carpenters at some new and established restaurants and talk with them too. So far, I like what I see in the workers. Being in construction for so long, I can tell when men are wasting time, or if they are just waiting for the cement truck that is late because of traffic. In the last month that I have been watching, I have only seen workers that I would say are doing their job. No slouching, or anything that David may think he was looking at.

I am Daniel Robert Smyth , and I live in one of the neighborhoods on the West Side of Rockford by Central Avenue. I own my home and school my children here! I could just use some of the pie, like so many others.

I only hope the repairs last after the Winter, and that we have someone with the time to monitor how fast or slow some of these repairs crumble and break away.