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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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She’s right. It is uncharted territory to have a prosecutor who hates the police, loves criminals, and who is paid by and under the direct control of a hostile foreign national
Chicago murders far outpaced the invasion of Normandy. According to historians 10,000 allied troops and between 4-9,000 Germans died. Since Richard J. Daley times 39,981 murders in Chicago according to http://www.heyjackass.com. Probably most is black on black crime and where’s BLM in all this?
Laughable comment from Ms Incimpetent Foxx. Disrespecting someone in the ghetto has been a precursor to the death penalty on the streets of Chicago for decades. Looking at somebody “the wrong way” can get you shot. Talking to someone’s woman can get you shot. A simple discussion can end up with dead people. The typical suburban bbq when held in the ghetto usually accounts for guns being pulled, shots fired and two or three guests wounded or dead. Foxx has just figured this out?
You’re speaking the truth, unlike the Black politicians, activists a d preachers. Additionally, there’s gangs and drugs too. ????