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The combination of big money and political might gave birth to a community-based violence prevention movement that would, in just five years, spur government investment, earn praise at the White House and provide a semi-permanent infrastructure allowing for an unprecedented bet on former gang members to heal their own communities.
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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Sure the programs aren’t working, so we better throw more money at them. That’s basically what WBEZ is saying here. Typical.
There’s an elephant in the room of which we dare not speak, lest we be branded.
Consider the demographics as reported on HeyJackass.com and you’ll get my point. And just in the last few days, the murders in Bolingbrook.
Note to the ‘gun banners,’ rarely, and I mean RARELY do murders involve ‘assault-style weapons,’ or FOID or concealed carry card holders. Just say’n – law abiding gun owners don’t engage in wholesale murder; violent gangs and criminals do.
Why is that which is most obvious ignored? Some perverted form of political correctness?
Stupid chickens.
Guns are not violent. Gangs, on the other hand, are quite violent.