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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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The Guard would most likely have rules of engagement just as restrictive or more than the CPD. It would just amount to a lot more people writing reports.
You got it, Toyota! (Maybe you remember that commercial of some 40 years ago.) I see it just as you do. Superficially it appears to the novice that the hero military personnel have arrived. But, you’d better believe they will “get their marching orders” as to what to do and what not to do. If anyone–anyone!–takes action outside those boundaries for whatever personnel motives may apply his trouble are starting and going to be within him for the duration. Heads will roll, and you can bet your bippy that those at the top will disavow all unverifiable conversations directing any… Read more »
Let em loose, no ROE. Declare a free fire zone. Anything to get Lori back in the headlines. She hasn’t tasted a shoe for a few days.
As long as they can shoot to kill the animals!
Sure, ok activists, bring on the guard. Just don’t think you can micro manage them in a woke manner like you try with everything else. If the guard comes I expect to see tanks, armored vehicles, live ammunition, 24 hour presence, night goggles, etc. Ill bet the minute the guard pulls out their fighting hardware all you ‘activists” will be the first to scream racist or whatever. Bring it on, I dare you.
Yea, great idea! Maybe paint targets on them too!
The national guard can do little about violent crime, how are they going to prevent a gang banger shooting another gang banger? The last time these folks engaged in urban warfare – Fallujah – it didn’t so well. Why would we expect anything different? The solution, rejected by Kim Foxx, is to lock up low level criminals BEFORE they can commit future a crimes. A perp in jail for a year on a gun charge stops him from committing another crime for at least a year. Do that for every perp in the city and fill up the jails, they’re… Read more »
The odds are that these men would not be fathers to their children, their children would live in poverty, and they are not employable even if they do not spend time in jail. These are not consequences of locking them up- they are the consequences of the culture they choose.
Those “activists” should note a Jan 6 protestor was shot and killed at US Capitol, and the capitol police-officer who shot her, a federal employee, still hasn’t been identified, the shooting of an unarmed person still not been investigated, and apparently, the dead woman, a military veteran, ignored by SJW advocates altogether. So what happens if National Guard arrives in Chicago, patrols Chicago streets with weapons on display, and shoots a criminal suspect? More riots? Because the National Guardsman-shooter is unlikely to be identified, nor shooting investigated. Do “activists” have a keen attraction to men in combat uniforms? Those soldiers… Read more »
It has gotten to the point of absurdity. We won’t arrest and punish the criminals, so we need soldiers in full battle gear to roam the streets to try and prevent violence? What a joke.
policies have consequences so they want to solve the problems the other activists created by sidelining the police who are trained to deal with civilian issues. They stood by while police were insulted, spit upon and assaulted, while being restrained if not punished for enforcing laws and enforcing civil order. While the activists stood by and applauded the no bail policy, stood buy with setting $1000 threshold before anyone can be arrested for stealing and stood by as a community silently allowing violence to envelope them without identifying those committing the crimes to allow them to be charged…and released because… Read more »
Not enough. We need those 15 mile wide spaceships from Independence Day-1/2 dozen Borg Cubes but they will probably get caught in the crossfire and die. Never Mind!