Great, Another "Panel"

First we have the mayor's "Blue Ribbon" panel that was exploring how to properly fund the police and fire pensions that are currently as some anemic number like 50% or less. We offered to save the taxpayers a boatload of money by pointing out the problems we saw:

• stop deferring payments to fund road projects and bloated social programs;
• as you sell off city assets, funnel the money to pensions.

Unfortunately, the mayor decided to spend more tax money and go with the "experts" who will no doubt say something like "raise taxes again."

Now, the mayor wants to study youth violence:

• University of Chicago researchers will interview victims, offenders and parents -- with a particular emphasis on single moms -- to get to the heart of youth violence and devise “out of the box” strategies to prevent it, Mayor Daley said today.
• “I asked myself the question: ‘What about these young men? Who are they? Did they drop out of elementary school? Did they drop out of high school? Do they have any brothers or sisters? Were they in the juvenile justice system? What happened to them?’ We have to look at it completely different. We have to look at things we’ve never talked about,” Daley told a news conference at the U of C's School of Social Service Administration, 969 E. 60th Street.
• The study will be led by U of C professor Jens Ludwig, who hopes to have “early results” — including new “intervention policies” -- within six to 12 months. The city would then launch a series of pilot programs to test those strategies.

Ludwig has already come up with an interesting hypotheses, one that any Chicago cop with more than one shooting scene under his or her belt could tell you:

• Ludwig said interviews with those who have pulled the trigger would be critical. His analysis of Chicago homicides shows that “75 to 80 percent” of both offenders and victims have prior arrest records.

Wow. What a fucking brainiac this guy is. Thank heavens he teaches at the University of Chicago - the doorways there are extra wide for his over sized brain so they won't have to make any capital improvements for Professor Ludwig to traverse the hallways.

Can we attempt to save everyone some money again? Please?

• stop having kids if you can't support them
• stop having kids if you don't have a stable family structure
  
• yes, that means TWO parents
  
• stop having kids if you don't want to take an interest in them
• discipline
• personal responsibility
• get a job
• pay your own way
• set an example worth following

We can see Professor Ludwig's solution already:

• raise taxes
• hire some more political idiots to run it
• more studies

We are so doomed.