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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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“And it’s absolutely critical that we engage in programs that are proven to be effective.”
Accompanied by a list of programs-n-commisions-n-outreaches that Governor Tax Cheat supports, which are exactly more of the same failed motion-camoflauged-as-progress harrumphery that we’re already wasting time and money on.
He’s throwing Lori under the bus!
Pritzker ought to know a great deal about the gun violence problem. He, along with the other two stooges Lightweight and Lil Kim, created it. Seriously, Jabba is a cancer to this state. I can’t wait for his reign of terror to be over.
Let me inform you dear readers what this is………A WASTE OF MONEY! I own guns, several of my neighbors own guns, I belong to a rifle club along with 900+ other people, lots of guns, yet all of those guns are well behaved. Look at the stats from Chicago/Cook County, 96% of all homicides and shootings involve POC. The problem is them, not me, my
neighbors, my fellow rifle club members, NRA members or any other responsible, law abiding gun owner. Get the idea you failed bunch of ignorant politicians.
We already have a prevention approach and it’s a good one but not perfect. Step 1 police arrest offender with unregistered handgun. If a handgun is unregistered that’s a pretty good sign it will be used in a crime. Step 2 States Attorney charges offender and get’s a conviction. Step 3 Judge sentences offender to jail time. Step 4 Sheriff locks up the offender. You have now prevented this offender from committing violence. Pritzker, any idea why this violence prevention approach doesn’t work? Afraid to call out Kimmy, Timmy and Tommy for not doing what they are supposed to do?… Read more »
““This will include high-risk youth intervention services, violence prevention and interruption, and trauma recovery.” Are compassion and violence prevention really a solution for sociopath gang bangers who live a life of crime? $150,000,000 is a lot of money to dole out for ‘violence prevention’ in half vacant high crime areas. The GOP tried to introduce bills to incarcerate repeat offenders just in case ‘intervention’ didn’t work and the bill didn’t even get a hearing. Sociopaths shoot into a crowd or into homes on residential streets and kill bystanders and little children. They do so without remorse. You can’t rehabilitate someone… Read more »
Looks to me like a way to get federal health dollars into the pipeline for loony left spending that will provide 50K + jobs plus pensions to surplus graduates of social worker programs. Perhaps encourage greater public university enrollment in said social worker programs. Helps university budgets; more administrator jobs for public programs. Greater economic health for the already healthy — great way to spend federal health dollars.
Fixed the headline:
Failed Governor Pritzker — And Illinois Democrat Cop Haters/Crime Enablers — Have Done All They Could To Cripple Police Departments And The Criminal Courts — Now They Are Responding To The Crime Surge They Caused — By Flushing Money Down The Toilet Of Worthless, Do-Nothing Government Programs — Program Which Only Benefit Crooked Democrat Insiders
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