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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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What I find so satisfying about Chicago burning is that the progressive mantra is that the police are violent and evil, everyone gets along all kumbaya, guns should be banned because no one needs them for protection, and most people’s biggest concern is climate change so stop using plastic straws.. But YIKES! Have they been completely wrong about their constituency. Their voters are thieving, lying, looting arsonists, of all races, colors and creeds, who become barbarian animals sacking a city the moment the thin veneer of civilization disappears. Lori is crying in her office, likely curled up in a… Read more »
If only we had a local newspaper with the balls to print the headline: “CITY TO LIGHTFOOT: F-U”
That’s good, they’re all saying that Lori is doing a great job keeping us safe!
The rioters will cause a few millions in damages.
Now for the REAL WINNERS, the cops will rack up tens of millions of dollars in overtime pay. They will spike their pensions billions over the life time.
The real thief’s are the cops who stand by and watch and do nothing to stop the looting. Why should they it is not their stuff.
If you add up all the different cities the WINNERS WILL BE THE COPS BY BILLIONS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS.
You’re kidding here, right? You surely aren’t looking at what happened in major cities all across the United States through that myopic viewpoint! What do you want here–the cops to take it upon themselves maybe even individually whom to shoot? It could well have been a massacre if that started and making a “small” problem into a truly bigger one. Even if you wanted them to act in a more restrained way it would still aggravate the problem. There were–and many times are–more looters than police, too. Be thankful that their actions were restrained.
“take it upon themselves” – I agree with the sentiment, but it needs to be applied to all factions. The message conveyed to “f the police” has such a sweeping generalization. Should we apply the same logic to all protestors? Every act of violence by protesters is their failure to “take it upon themselves” to be accountable for their actions.
There’s an immeasurable feeling I have to gear up and head in to defend some businesses. But then I think otherwise.
It seems to me that a whole lot of the “outraged black protesters” are white.
I am somewhat confused…
Smells like ANTIFA
ANTIFA along with free stuff army.
There’s definitely a few parties involved.
You don’t need to be black to see that this officer went way too far in restraining a suspect.
There are few things more contemptible than the white fools marching with the third world rioters.
You apparently do need to be white to react properly to a police killing, as the white community did when the Somali affirmative action police officer Mohamed Noor killed innocent white woman Justine Damond in Minnesota. No riots. Noor is justly behind bars now.