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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 CEO of McDonalds, though lacking in tact, was spot on. Communities don’t raise kids, their PARENTS do… And, simply because one has the urges of an animal and eggs and sperm, doesn’t earn the moniker mom or dad.
These people are no more than animals and Kimmy, the zookeeper.
Anyone who who commits a crime with a gun needs 20 years no parole. Any murders get the death penalty. Problem solved.
Let’s simplify “gun-violence” issue to simplest degree of logic: DON’T SHOOT PEOPLE.
There are no other excuses for “gun violence”. Shooting a person is a willful decision executed by an individual regardless of socio-economic-political factors.
Kim sounds determined to keep the violence going. One of the worst elected officials to hold public office ever in Illinois. Now that’s saying something.
How could gang databases in Chicago not be racially disproportionate? The Almighty Saints went from mostly Polish to almost entirely Spanish with the big Spanish immigration since e1990. The Taylor street Dukes/Jousters are defunct since the police broke them up in the 80s. Not many of the lawyers and bankers in Lake View and Lincoln Park have joined up with whatever may be left of Lenny Patrick’s Jewish crew. No white street gangs left that are available to join that I know of.
The Popes, the Royals and my favorites from the Henry Horner Homes; The Insane Pimps. The glory days of colorful names.
Notice Foxx didn’t say families?
The community is most related individuals who do not form a traditional nuclear or extended families. The gang structure is woven into this community in place of family because it’s a common unifying tribe. There are entirely extended families that are GD, or BD, or Latin King, and so on. Gang members are as common in the community as republicans are as common in conservative exurbs. It’s like the tight tribal relations that permeates the entire middle east without the consanguinity (family marriage). The gangs aren’t some identifiable outside force bringing crime into the community. Gangs ARE the community and… Read more »
Spot on. The gangs are the community, that is their culture. The community needs to learn that violence is not acceptable. They will only learn if violent members of the community are incarcerated for a long time. Any excuse for violence only perpetuates it. The idea that it is bad to disrupt the community by incarcerating violent members is wrong. The young men who pull triggers will not become nurturing mentors to their offspring. They will only pull the next generation into their evil culture.
If you want to see an outside glimpse of how the drug dealers operate,, street corner to street corner, catch a few episodes of the old series “The Wire”. It’s set in Baltimore but it might as well be Chicago.
She sounds uncomfortable. Hmmmmmm?