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“Those people weren’t criminals. They were people who were suffering. Whether that was cocaine or heroin or Fentanyl or prescription drugs, I’m not making value judgements on which person used what type of drug to say that’s a disorder,” Foxx told the Sun-Times.
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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The article didn’t address those who peddle the hard drugs or illegally prescribe. No mention of how effectively those people are being apprehended, held accountable, etc.
The media has a habit of covering what Foxx has to say that she’s said before.
Your a Disorder Foxx!
Covid-related stress-induced street-drug use??? Foxx should be recalled; the woman is hazard to human society.
What an idiot Kim is. Always making excuses for the lowlifes. Every society has them, but this dingbat celebrates their every failure.
This fantasy world she lives in is something tragic. Also her profession is undermined by her radical policies and agendas. What a loon.
Foxx you are totally delusional we know who you are trying to protect know wonder why Springfield wants to violate the 2nd amendment and try for fingerprints to get a foid card in Illinois better arm up the thugs will be running wild in the streets if Foxx has her way unbelievable the politicians in this state.
Only white, working, tax payers are criminals. That’s the target group of racists like Foxx.