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.
Why have a rally for a known drug dealer whose boyfriend admitted to the grand jury that he heard the knock and fired at the police? There was no “no knock” warrant and it’s typical fantasy like the “ hands up don’t shoot “ lie with thug Michael Brown who was going for the cops gun. Same fantasy with drug user Floyd and rapist Blake.