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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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A 3 year old is out and about at 9:30 pm. That’s Parents of the Year material.
I’ll be interested to watch how much urgency and how many resources this crime attracts, such that two people who are fine with shooting into large crowds, having done so at least once, are found.
Seems to me that unless something, or “some things”, are broken, it shouldn’t take long at all….
What’s happening is that many, many urban teens use so much dope that they are in a state of perpetual psychosis and they engage in sociopathic behaviors. This goes beyond the typical stoner. When white kids do mass shootings, we all know that they are evil and crazy, and nearly all of them are heavy cannabis users and on antidepressants. With the urban teens, they’re on just as much cannabis but also mixed with other drugs, often codeine aka purple drank or whatever. They are high 24/7. All the time. That’s just what they do. They’re stoners on the strongest… Read more »
Hmmmm……Black Lives Matter, Crime is down too!