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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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.
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Check out the numbers at HEYJACKASS.COM. 100% of all shootings and homicides in Chicago so far in 2023 only involve POC. So, the problem is?
White supremacy! That’s what the president said, so it must be true, right? He wouldn’t lie to us, would he?
I’m so confused!
POC violence is the elephant in the room, pervading, but ignored. Those who ignore it are no friends to POCs – only their overlords.
In this City, Tree Equity, global warming and transportation justice are all more important than preventing grade schoolers from being shot. The City’s latest bond deal makes it clear that even though their kids cant read or count the change in their pockets, and they have to wear Kevlar vests to walk down the street, Chicagoans need to listen to Greta Thunberg about what our priorities should be. But heck, it’s only $150 million plus interest for 25 years.
They honestly believe that fixing injustices like Tree Equity, global warming and transportation justice along with Healing Houses, all mixed together in an alchemist’s potion, sprinkled liberally in underserved areas, will transform the ghettos into Glencoe. They believe this as an ideological position and it is not based on impericial or objective evidence that their ideas work.
perception of violent crime
But, but, the assault ban is in effect!
Reminder to Springfield legislators: criminals don’t follow laws, that’s what makes them CRIMINALS, you stupid chickens!
Stupid Chickens !!! Love it.
-1, really?
Haters!
Gun Laws work.