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"When there is more poverty in a community, there is more likely to be criminal activity that arises in that community," Gov. JB Pritzker said. "The more we can lift people up, and we are doing that in a number of ways, one of which is providing more education funding, early childhood education and alleviating some of the burdens on young families."
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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“When there is more poverty in a community, there is more likely to be criminal activity that arises in that community”….
So poverty causes immorality JB? How’s that work exactly?
If education funding is such a good investment, why not put what’s left of the teachers’ pension fund there. Likely it would pay off like electric vehicles and solar power schemes and the taxpayers would get a three year break. The sooner Chicago goes bankrupt and productive citizens have emigated, the sooner we can work on fixing what’s left. It would still be a Chernobyl Challenge perhaps the sister-cities could get all the buffoons in the same room and work things out.
I haven’t read much that persuades me it’s not going to be a long, hot, violent summer in Chicago’s poor Black neighborhoods. The ‘too few’ CPD officers, I suspect, are mostly going to be around the parks-n-beaches-n-museums-n-what not. Places that even the PC media have to put in the news when a mob goes on a rip. The pestilential neighborhood gang/drug/thug murders-n-shootings-robberies – the every-week “XX People Shot, X Killed In Chicago This Weekend” stuff – that just gets worse. ‘Peacekeepers’-n-community agencies? That’s already been going on for years at vast expense with little benefit. If Prtizker-n-Brandon could point to… Read more »
https://nypost.com/2023/05/29/ex-con-chicago-peacekeeper-helped-beat-rob-motorist-cops/
Even After Signing Democrats’ Crime Enablign SAFE-T Act, Pritzker Claims He Cares About Stopping Crime
His face is fat enough to talk out of both sides of his mouth and he does
The Invest in Kids Act was doing a great job, for an incredibly meager investment, at treating the underlying cause of crime. Pritzker killed it because that’s what the Teachers Union told him to do. Pritzker’s bloviating is now just carnival barking.
Pritzker sounds like a ponzi scheme salesmen everytime he opens his gigantic pie hole.
I’d give Pritzker a 100 cases of moon pies if he went away.
Unbelievable! There’s so much wrong with this comment, I hardly know where to start. People need inspiration, mentors, and folks that lead by example, not someone from the government telling them that they’ve been disenfranchised, and they’ll never get anywhere unless someone invests in them. This is the exact opposite of agency and personal drive.
Internet technology has created more opportunities than anyone could have imagined. I started out with nothing and managed to get somewhere by having the right attitude. I never would have gotten anywhere if I listened to these people.
The more crime in a community, the more likely there will be poverty in the community.
Fixed it for you, Governor.
What dribble. Is this really a governor of a major American state? Not even worth a comment.