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Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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This is just deplorable, Foxx needs to be removed
No charges for anything? Must be another one of those mutual combatant situations.
No matter what Foxx and Lightfoot say, guns are OK, shooting at others is OK, converting guns to automatic fire is OK.
So there’s no gun problem, no assault weapons problem, no ghost gun problem, no gun show problem, no “all the guns come from Indiana problem, everything’s fine.
It’s OK for HER voters to do these things.
These rules don’t apply to you, however.
Tribal politics.
Like I’ve said before, Kim Foxx wants members of her community to solve their own problems internally, without the oppressive nature of the systemically racist criminal justice system getting in the way. That’s how shootouts in the middle of the street, in broad day light, are normalized. If that is what she wants to do – great. However, I am really disappointed she has not brought back wergeld*. How else are the families of those involved in street battles supposed to be compensated for their loss? She can set up a formal council of city elders and community leaders and… Read more »
Like everything else that comes out of Lil Kim’s office, this is messed up.
Cook County Fake Prosecutor (And Literal Moron) Kim Foxx Fails To Bring Charges After Another Mass Shooting
Crime in Chicago? What crime? Show me the cases, show me the arrests, show me the charges. None of that equals no crime problems