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Emanuel turns over homeless services to Catholic Charities

Written by holmegm

Tuesday, 28 August 2012 13:50

From The Chicago Tribune:

Catholic Charities is taking over as the agency giving people late night rides to shelters as part of Chicago's latest plan to fight homelessness.
The city will use an expected $1.7 million in annual savings from turning over the overnight services to the venerable charity to help provide more beds and support to homeless youth and others, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Thursday.

Comments

holmegm

|2012-08-28 14:55:35

Er ... doesn't the Catholic Church harbor some beliefs that Rahm Emanuel simply won't stand for in his city?

whitemice

|2012-08-29 22:41:48

Why? R.E. is hardly a 'firebrand liberal'; he can probably be categorized as a ruthless (albiet easily distracted) pragmatist.

Probably in Chicago this will go over with minimum fuss

The sad side is that well-paid professional public sector jobs will be lost and replaced by very poorly paid and poorly trained charity sector workers (who recieve nearly no benefits and themselves live at risk of financial ruin).

holmegm - re:

|2012-08-30 11:06:31

whitemice wrote:

Why? R.E. is hardly a 'firebrand liberal'; he can probably be categorized as a ruthless (albiet easily distracted) pragmatist.

It's a reference to his Chick-fil-A comments.

And the Roman Catholic Church has pretty much the same perspective on marriage as the Chick-fil-A honcho.

Why the difference then, from Mr. Emanuel? Pragmatic indeed.

whitemice wrote:

The sad side is that well-paid professional public sector jobs will be lost and replaced by very poorly paid and poorly trained charity sector workers (who recieve nearly no benefits and themselves live at risk of financial ruin).

Hmm. That's an interesting perspective, at least.

I suppose doing anything more affordably means that someone isn't going to be as highly paid for it.

Yet somehow, that doesn't make the Soviet or Cuban models more successful, which they would have been if this perspective were helpful ...

laika

|2012-08-30 13:36:10

holmegm wrote:

Yet somehow, that doesn't make the Soviet or Cuban models more successful, which they would have been if this perspective were helpful ...

Does that comparison really apply to an economy like ours, though? I'm guessing that whitemice's concern (and that of so many right now) is that removing yet more pretty decent jobs from the pool at this point won't help to keep the economy churning; it'll mean that those workers won't be stopping by the coffee shop, for instance, on their way to work, which might translate to letting someone go from the coffee shop - and on and on up and down the chain.

holmegm wrote:

Er ... doesn't the Catholic Church harbor some beliefs that Rahm Emanuel simply won't stand for in his city?

Understood. Why would he happily do business with an outfit with views identical to Chik-fil-A while threatening to chase Chik-fil-A outta town for support of same? But, then, he is a politician after all...

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