Oh Christmas tree, Oh Christmas tree.... the Congressional Christmas tree is going to be very, very good to Jackson. The FY 2023 Omnibus Appropriations Package is up for a vote in Congress this week. The bill contains some relief for Jackson's water system:
Congress must pass the bill before December 23.
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CHS for sure, and maybe Wicker, will vote against it; then hold an event in Jackson, taking credit. 🤦🏻♂️
This is what Chowke wanted all along because "the state wouldn't help him." "Free" money from WDC.
In unrelated news Chokwee just bought a 4th house in Martha's Vinyard
I'm dreaming of an omnibutt pork package rejection by the senate Christmas. Just like the gov't shutdowns we used to know.
With that kind of money available a few people will make out like bandits. NOt willing to name names, but you guys probably already know their initials.
Socrates is licking his chops while racing to the BMW/Mercedes dealership. Richards, you in? Right?
If they are going to insist on using arcane language, they could at least embed links to the statutes and regulations cited, instead of publishing Byzantine bullshit.
The blessing (or curse depending on your perspective) of this arrangement is that the usual suspects will not be eligible to "benefit" from this pot. The City will not be contracting and the State will not be policing. Federal acquisition is a little more rigorous - yes, it will cost more but the work will be completed according to much higher standards.
New bank accounts opening up in the Bahamas 🇧🇸
A new car for everybody.
Wait for the Jackson water system repair bills to arrive after the ice cube event this weekend.
Broken water mains in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, all because of "open carry," gun shows, and the Rs.
2:30 nailed it. Neither the state GOP parasites nor the Jackson democrat parasites will control the funds. This will be professional grade leaching that will put the locals to shame. The thing about Federal money is that they don’t care if it costs 3x what it should but it damn well better work when they are done.
If Jokeway gets his hands on the cash, residents will never see it. I’m sure his sister is salivating in her new Bridgewater house. Now she has a way to pay for it
So Americans who live in Mississippi are about to get American dollars to invest in American infrastructure which will greatly improve the life of fellow Americans.
I am truly excited some funding is coming to my home town.
It’s a wonderful time to be alive.
Rejoice and be grateful.
Mayor's attorneys from years past are already commenting on this and other projects from whence to grift. Same ole same ole **it hole.
So we gonna get what, maybe 1.8 Mill?
@ 2:30 - "The City will not be contracting and the State will not be policing."
Where did you get that?
Let this be a lesson to all of you water system managers in Mississippi:
(1) Get to work early, stay late, do your job, put in the effort, manage your system, take calls at night and on the weekend, and you will be rewarded with ZERO help from the government.
(2) Get to work late, leave early, neglect your responsibilities, show no effort, neglect your system, ignore calls after hours, and you will be rewarded with millions of dollars. You will also be able to call the water system mentioned in example 1 above a bunch of racists and talk about how they are entitled and given everything (even though it's not true).
What a time to be alive!
All the money in the world can not fix stupid.
This was predictable.
Last sentence: "...retain "1,000,000 for management and oversight..."
Addendum: "...shall appoint an overseer who must reside in Jackson..."
Money won't be given directly to Lumumba. It will take 10 years or more to get the work done.
If the temps are as cold as the experts are predicting, I see massive water issues for
the Capitol City this weekend.
And I while I hope that doesn't happen ... if it does ... I'm sure there will be another classic & entertaining Sunday afternoon press conference by Stokes.
Slams the door on any additional appropriations from the State in the 2023 session.
Happy this money is coming from the Federal Government!
Sorry some of y'all are mad about this. Go pray about it, I guess.
I know all you Christians are excited your jackson neighbors will in time have potable drinking water not to mention all the jobs!
Think about all the good coming to jackson!
I know your congregations will well up and sing praises for the good fortune of jacksonians !
Why I think the mayor should sell some nft s to show the progress!
1:31 Wicker actually worked on this. He came through for the city.
5:01 Ehhh, you would be surprised. Let's just say the next two months are going to be interesting.
most cant see the forest for the trees. contract bros of Mississippi are hurt. sucks to be them LOL.
YALL COME BACK Now, YA HEAR!
4:14 Cry more.
I prefer the new Congress to shut down government, dry up the pork, even if it means no $600M for Jackson. Reducing the country's debt is more important than hundreds of pork projects across the country. Wicker is, at best, a RINO.
Theca dont you have another shooting to deny happened
@6:03. You are correct that I’m crying. I should have worked less, been a lazy piece of crap, cared less, and performed at an incompetent level. Then my system could have gotten the government’s $600 million credit card.
We might want to think about rewarding competence and effort. Instead we are rewarding laziness and incompetence. We are rewarding folks that basically stole from their employer.
6:55
Mississippi, the home of Incompetence. I really hope you don't believe where you live Infrastructure is up to par, or even halfway decent. All of Mississippi will need money soon, and most of the nation.
I'm still loving the crying, though.
The thing about federal projects is they all have to be bonded. To be bonded you have to have assets, credit, and a good bonding history. Showing them your plaques on the wall, plus a sour bond deal will leave out one “contractor” whose name rhymes with Marcus Wallace. If done correctly, this will greatly help Jackson, if done like most Jackson project, the project will fail but Instagram and Facebook will be lit!
5:44 spewing hate in the Holiday Season. I bet he is the Debbie Downer at every party.
And we wonder why you can’t find workers.
So, pray tell, where in the world did $600,000,000 (plus $1,000,000) come from?
Republicans squeal about crazy spending and then refuse to block it.
And yes, Cindy and Roger both voted for McConnel to head the Republicans again.
$600M plus $750M the state is handing out. Please tell me who is going to do all the work? Not enough competent MS contractors! Out of state contractors you say? Every state around us have gobs of money to spend. And what about finding ditch diggers and materials?
This is going to be the biggest fiasco in the history of contracting. Like post Katrina for the whole country! That $600M won’t go very far very fast!
Having worked hard throughout my lifetime, and having learned to be self reliant from my predecessors, I am appalled at the giddy acceptance of so many from others who always bail them out. And, yes, that includes this federal bailout.
Key word every time is... bailout.
Cost over-runs in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...
3:44 - the sister who runs the poor people's campaign?
@9:04, federal money comes from thin air. “Our tax dollars” — income tax — pays interest due on T-bills bought by foreign governments, the Chinese, the Brits, the Dutch, to name but a few, and institutional finance entities.
Anything else — water systems, warmaking materiel, Wicker’s salary — the Federal Reserve Bank tells the Bureau of Printing and Engraving how much money to print. Thus the current meme which says “Money machine go brrrrrrrrrrrrr.”
The dollar’s value is based on your faith that it’s worth a dollar.
The sweet taste of losers tears
Federal Contracts doesn’t mean anything. They lose millions of dollars in contracts from incompetent businesses and the businesses get away with it. Just meet the woke government criteria, under bid, hire local idiots/crack heads to do the work, and get paid to do half ass work. The Feds will just find someone else to redo it, happens all the time, no accountability.
As much as we distain Lumumba, he knows how the game is played. Lumumba will acquire more wealth and power being a government leech than the brightest, hardest working, most productive capitalists in the state.
The Mercedes, BMW, and Tesla dealers are high-fiving, along with realtors in Oxford and the Redneck Riviera. Right?
Look you bunch of Sunday-Morning-Economists: Our national monetary system is based on 'full faith and credit' - Our FAITH that our dollar is worth a shit and our reliance on CREDIT cards.
The soon to be torn up streets should slow down the drag racing and pursuits for years. Right?
Imagine being mad about Jackson getting funding. Musty old grumps, never happy. No joy.
Agreed. How can anybody criticize Jackson getting $600 million, all sorely needed, to repair its water system? Instead, the Rankin County crowd on here spew their tired, false allegations against Mayor Lumumba, who deserves high praise for his part in lobbying the Feds for this money.
Attention Mississippi Free Press and Mississippi Today. I dare you to write an article about a successful water/system system and show how it is managed, finances are managed, and infrastructure is maintained and repaired. I dare you to show the hard work and hours put in to make things work well and efficiently. I dare you to do that and contrast it to Jackson. You won't do it because it would destroy your agenda.
I agree that Jackson needs the $600 million. But the only reason they need it is because of their own failures, incompetence, and gross mismanagement.
“The sweet taste of losers tears”, to whom do you refer? Is there some competition I was not aware of?
At least ol Ted knows what he is dealing with around here, telling WLBT,
“There’s going to be a lot of money chasers, various contractors, snake oil salespeople - everybody and anybody is going to be running around down here trying to find a connection to get into it,” he said. “And so, this is a cautionary tale. We need to be really careful [so we] don’t have a Siemens again.”
I am pleased Jackson is getting help because the city leaders are clearly too dumb to effectively run a city and I am impressed with the mayor's use of woke-world to save himself. Genuinely.
Yet I can also be displeased that the inept leaders who caused this mess are being rewarded for being lazy buffoons.
Unlike Thec, I prefer to root for people with work ethic, intelligence and goals.
And I have found that the folks who cheer for the corrupt leaders are often doing so because they are benefitting from the corruption. Educated and sane people get angry when a leader allows them to live in deplorable conditions.
Did none of you get the memo that Mississippi gets more federal money than the federal tax dollars we pay?
I'd rather see federal dollars go to needed infrastructure.
The emphasis is on "needed". Needed isn't new sport's venues for celebrity children or making sure the roads to the ballgames are the best roads in the State while neglected roads and bridges and bridges risk lives. Indeed one highly ravelled bridge has 3 lanes instead of 4 as a rail section is gone.
Some of you just don't seem to know you are racist and if you do, don't care.
I'm white and I can even prove my family were here before yours ever arrived and were barely beaten by the Pilgrims...AND we've defended this Nation every damn time. So, spit at the battleship.
"'Twas the week before Christmas, and through the Senate and House, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The earmarks were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.
The senators were nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of pork danced in their heads. No budget was found, just mischief and debt. While the taxpayers hung their poor heads and wept.
Now, McConnell! Now, Schumer! Now, Pelosi and Vixen! On Biden! On Stupid! On Dumber and Blitzen! To debt! To bankruptcy! To free money for all! Now dash, dash away, more cash for all!
This spending season, instead of naughty and nice, Santa brought everyone something regardless of price.
And don’t forget a delicious candy cane, sweet with $40 billion to tide over Ukraine. Because of the climate, it's not PC to leave coal. No one seems to care, because we're trillions in the hole.
Don't worry about leaving the budget a mess. Democrats have given you 87,000 agents of the IRS.
But I heard him exclaim, as he drove out of sight, 'Happy bankruptcy to all, and to all a good night'"
Rand Paul
3:23 PM, this excerpt from a Dec 12th Taki’s article sums it up:
If I had one wish to be fulfilled this Christmas it would for every U.S. Marine guarding our nation’s embassies to put down their guns and declare a 48-hour strike against the rotten regime in D.C. that chose a black lesbian drug smuggler over an American ex-Marine rotting in a Russian jail since 2018.
The black lesbian basketball player who was chosen over the Marine used to remain seated during the playing of the national anthem, or if she happened to be standing up, she would turn her back and make sure everyone noticed what she thought of Uncle Sam.
America is now a country as loathsome as the Soviet Union once was.
While the Citizens of Jackson certainly deserve potable water, passable Streets, a PD that enforces the Law - it's a crying shame our U.S. Congress rewards total inept Leaders who couldn't balance a Budget to save their Lives. I hope Senators from Ms choose wisely for this Vote--
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...congratulations Rankin County with your world-class poo plant and your ever increasing water bill to pay for those bonds. Meanwhile the system you abandoned will be fixed for free...
What a waste. Build a rudimentary high capacity prison instead. Use the prisoners for public work/cleanup projects. Lots of vacant locations.
Well since fire stations are yet again without water and your mayor COJ said he did not want or need State of MS help because he had everything under control; so there you go! Get him off of the news & let Heflin be the spokesperson. No one believes One word from Chokwe!
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