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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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It’s the KimTim n Toni show. Cook County will get revenge for defeating Toni; she’ll burn down the city for power. She’s as surreptitious as Madigan. Where’s Dart? Pouting in his empty jail after being shown the children’s table? Forrest Claypool? There are a multitude of shtbgs waiting for their turn.
Guess rates are going up at PT to pay for armed security to protect tenants on the property. At least everyone knows now that gangs are marking their neighborhood for their territory to continue preying upon. Robberies and carjackings on near north neighborhoods now, often times in daylight. They do not fear the law at all.
Would be good to see Kass write up the armed security elected officials, who are responsible for the crime wave, have at work and home and for their family.
Behind much of the violence, lurking in the background, are the cartels that control nearly all the supply of drugs into the city. They sit at the top of the food chain, supplying the drugs to the gangs, and letting the chaos fester below, while they themselves keep their cartel activities as secret and as low key as possible. Just like The Wire with the shipping companies, living in the suburbs, working out of crappy small unassuming offices. And meanwhile, Joe Biden is letting in 1,000,000 illegal immigrants this years, not even knowing how many of these people are with… Read more »
The fentanyl is made in China. So their you have it with ‘China Joe’.
The fentanyl is too powerful to be used alone; it is mixed with the heroin that is controlled by the cartels, shipped from around the world.
Many, very many.
The thing I find scary is Illinois is a sanctuary state so how many of these illegal immigrants will come here?
Apparently, the Tribune kept a tight reign on Mr. Kass; he’s more fun, but probably poorer, now that he’s free from his editors’ hairy arms.