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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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Some would say it’s time to bring back the Guardian Angels. I have a better idea. Lori can give some money to a community organization that can talk to these young criminals. Isn’t that the usual solution just give money to a community organization. I wonder if I started an organization of middle age, white, males to reduce violence if they would give my organization any money.
I’ll paraphrase Ms. Foxx – … it was the only economy available to them.
You’re a prosecutor, lady, not a defense attorney. We expect nonsense like that from defense attorneys, not state prosecutors.
Do your job!
She hasn’t done a damn thing but perpetuate crime since she took office. A waste of oxygen if ever there was one.
Whatever happened to having undercover cops posing as young people or single women walking down the street waiting to be robbed. Then cops pounce on them and throw them in paddy wagons so Foxx can let them go. In Rockford women cops posing as ladies of the evening caught many men who solicit these women. Somewhat cleaned up 7th St and Broadway. Entrapment was never an issue.
Any volunteers?
That may be forthcoming, but they won’t be undercover cops, catch my drift people have had it, period.
Why bother catching them? Lil Kim would never press charges against these little angels. Shoot to kill.