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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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Kim Foxx did not even mention the perpetrators of the crimes. Who makes black women 14 times more likely to be victims, Kim? Her solution is that law enforcement should be more respectful and put more resources (money) toward the victims.
How do progressives get away with this nonsense? Tears and sob stories are all it takes I guess.
AH! Once again you beat me to the comment I was going to say! So I’ll add that it must be Kim Foxx’s Low IQ that allows her to hold the cognitively dissonant position that “1/3rd of Black women are crime victims by Black men” and “Black men are victims of a systemically racist criminal justice system”. In her tiny little brain, she resolves these conflicting positions by….you guessed it….Blaming MAGA Republicans! That being said, I feel really bad for Kim, on a personal level. She’s going through a lot, a lot of trauma that no one should ever have… Read more »
Also, the rumor apparently from 2nd city copy is that the police involvement in the domestic incident at her home involved her discovering on Facebook that her husband was cheating on her. While not a crime, infidelity is a serious breach of trust and causes trauma for the non-cheating party. She basically can’t trust any men in her life, they’ve all abused her and her family members, and caused her pain. But still, instead of reigning vengeance down upon her people who have caused her such pain in her life, she has reformed the entire system, from the top to… Read more »
Funny, but she had no cognitive dissonance in choosing to live in Flossmoor instead of living in Chicago where the continued mayhem is directly due to her actions. She recognized the benefits of living in a nice suburban house in a safe suburb with good schools for her children, but enforces policies that create an environment in Chicago that are the opposite of the good conditions she sought in moving to Flossmoor.