-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
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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That’s why Herself was dancing, it could have been much worse.
Guns laws work.
How many of these shootings-n-murders, I wonder, involved a legally owned “assault rifle”?
Just another normal weekend in the Chitty. Families should leave for their safety. The criminals are now in control of the streets, South Side, West Side, North Side, and Downtown.