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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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Well, everything is solved because Lori just spent twenty minutes telling everyone to just listen to her directives… She is pathetic. Potentially well meaning, but way beyond her means…
Yeah, she will scold them even more if they don’t lesson. She’ll tell them that they can do better!
Gangbangers do not respond to what a politician says.
Gangbangers respond to what the police do.
The police under Mayor Lightfoot and many other big city mayors have, in the name of George Floyd and BLM, been transformed into impotent dazed and confused blue Smurfs.
Correcting injustices does not mandate losing control.
Want rioting, looting, shooting, violence, and murder?
Vote Lightfoot, Pritzker, and Biden.
Kim Foxx is to blame too. ?☹️
She was not shot by a white and was not shot by the police so she does not matter.
That is reality in 2020.
Now back to defeating Trump.
Prove me wrong.
The silence is deafening… Q. Where is the mainstream media outrage and outcry of “White Privilege“? Where are the BLM’ers and their looting? C’mon guys at least hit a Babies ‘R Us store in her honor. Where is Antifa and their American hating attempts to trigger a revolution? A. There is no money or revolutions to be had from the post birth abortion of yet another Black child and so she will simply be buried along with all the others. The answer is not to defund the police but simply pull them completely out of areas that don’t want them.… Read more »
Lori, where you at? What’s your plan? We’re waiting, Lori.