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“By him being released on bail, he’s free to do this again,” Sen. Elgie Sims told the State-Journal Register. Yet just last month Sims tweeted, “money bond doesn’t guarantee public safety or someone’s appearance in court, it supports a system where freedom is based on the size of someone’s bank account. We’ve tried the failed tough on crime polices [sic] of the past.”
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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Is this guy one of the biggest fools on the planet? Has he made the mental connection between his actions and what the criminal did to him yet?
This is our esteemed politicians!
Leave Chicago peeps!
Reap what you sow…
For once the author of illogical legislation is a victim of his own undoing…
Instead of an innocent bystander…
But mark my word, far more innocents will suffer…
It needs to happen far more often. These Leftists fools need to feel the effects of their insane ideas.
I really cant tell if he’s a hypocrite or an idiot. Maybe both. An idiot for not thinking critically about his vote and a hypocrite for thinking critically about his vote when he gets a taste of it.
If it happens to you it’s okay
If it happens to them it’s not
Different rules for different fools
“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open manhole and die.”
Mel Brooks
You just can’t make up the disfunction of the State of Illinois.
Something about being hoist on your own petard comes to mind.
He doesn’t understand what that means.
Both these people, the pol and the perp, should rot in cells for their stupidity.
Bit you in the ass didn’t it good maybe now you idiot politicians will wake up.
This article reads like the Onion. But even better, it is not parody. I am laughing every time I read it.