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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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Amazing what politicians can do with stats. Whe criminals are not arrested and charged, left judges dismiss charges, and crime is not reported, of course crime numbers will be down.
Congratulations! Mayor Pinhead’s policies have solved your crime problem. Tell me again what those policies were that resulted in your success? I’ll wager that Pinhead doesn’t even know.
Don’t open the bubbly yet as activists are starting to squeal about the rising jail population. To them, anything besides an empty jail is unacceptable.
Remove the non-prosecutor Kim Foxx and violent crime stats improve. Go figure.
Kim Foxx doesn’t need a root beer to the face, she needs to be disbarred.