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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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So, let’s talk about the Chicago media. There’s no corruption or crime in Chicago. No out of control maniacs ruling the city. We’ll, well, the number one rated tenacious abc channel 7, The Eye Team, the hard hitting, investigative wing of Disney. Since reporting anything associated with Chicago can be dangerous and dirty. Sooooo….let’s send a crew to Palatine and apply hard hitting journalism to cover A DOG FIGHT. a proud NWU journalism degree: To cover a dog fight!
The Tribune couldn’t spare a reporter the were busy covering a community youth in peril group recycling shopping carts into shivs.
I saw that last too the dog fight and the small plane crash were the ‘top’ news story.
Wait, I thought it was only the police that were shooting people. How can this be? We haven’t even gotten into the summer fun yet. Get ready for bigger numbers.
Make that 12 dead, there was a late entry. According to the stats @ HEYJACKASS.COM the murder/homicide rate is on track to be the deadliest year in over a decade. How’s that social justice thing working out Cabrini Kim? Hows that blame the police for all the ghetto antics Lightheaded? 96% of all the dead and shot are POC, blame YT. Idiots.
Life has become so miserable here that Obama’s hopes and dreams must settle for off-the-charts violence, madness and criminal activity. Last night nearby, molotov cocktail thrown into home, shootings and many incidents that don’t even make the news. Lawless town here, bandit town,