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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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Roger’s Park has its problems but this level of violence is a return to the 1990’s.
Lori and Kim,
Just think of that 5 year old boy as a post birth abortion and you won’t feel so bad.
Where is the national media on this? Where is the outrage from our comatose President, decrying black on black violence? Where is our corrupt local agenda writers bemoaning the tragic and unnecessary deaths of children? “Them damn guns…there they go, causing all kinds of violence, going rogue and firing willy nilly at anyone and everything!” It happens. Just ask Alec Baldwin.
I think about those very questions every time Wirepoints posts one of these stories (which is every week, as I recall) and it goes without any comment at all.
This is unfortunately happening in many major cities around the US. Last year a dozen major cities set their homicide records. Many cities are on pace to eclipse last year’s records. Philly and Milwaukee have gotten crazy violent. It seems that 2022 is going to outpace 2021 but there is very little reporting about that. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/a-9-year-old-boy-was-shot-and-is-expected-to-survive-milwaukee-police-say/ar-AA10LYUA A 9-year-old boy was shot and is expected to survive, Milwaukee Police say A 9-year-old boy was shot Wednesday in the North Division neighborhood in Milwaukee. He is expected to survive.Milwaukee Police said the shooting happened at approximately 11:10 a.m. on the 3000 block of North 10th… Read more »