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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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Nameless victims – every day, more nameless victims.
They have names, but their deaths/injuries are so commonplace, that we never know their names, their families, their communities … they aren’t important enough.
The city tolerates the daily crime and encourages more with the likes of defund the police, soft-on-crime policies, SAFE-T Act, sanctuary city, electing Lori Lightfoot, Toni Preckwinkle, Kim Foxx, Tim Evans, and Tom Dart.
Wake up, Chicago/Cook county – VOTE THE BUMS OUT!
Lil Kim says those kids are post birth abortions.
From lead poisoning.
A glaring example of why there exists a disparity in life expectancy among different races. If you take a large sample and dilute the sample with infants, toddlers, children, teens and young adults your conclusions are wrong! However CPS doesn’t teach basic math.
Obesity is the largest reducer of lifespan among all races.
And when High Fructose Corn Syrup was added to almost every product obesity rates exploded. https://clarkstreetpress.com/a-brief-history-of-high-fructose-corn-syrup/ Of course the corn industry says that’s not the case.
You bet! The fat ham fisted lady’s auxiliary loves to shriek about food deserts!