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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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Simply the result of a previous generation of ferals spawning the next! And everyone scratch’s their head! It’s society’s fault! More money will fix it! No! More money will by votes. Yes, they’re allowed to vote.
Hillary Clinton famously said “it takes a village” to raise a kid, which appears to mean parents aren’t responsible for their children’s outcome, the “village”, meaning governmental agencies are. Per “wokedness”, negligent parents aren’t ever to be held accountable for feral nature of their incorrigible children, or for those wayward kids becoming anti-social adults immersed in gang culture, terminal reliance on government-handout programs, and/or criminal activity.
It ‘takes a village’ because most men sired children with multiple women in the community. The men would disappear for days at a time to hunt or whatever while the women remained behind to raise all of the children fathered by all the men in the community. In a way this was a matriarchal society where the women decided that they were going to have children with multiple different men. This arrangement is still prevalent in some cultures in America today where upwards of 60% of women have two or more baby daddies. This is most prevalent in neighborhoods in… Read more »
The state. The state is responsible for our children. As the results are quite predictable.
Absolutely true. Years ago bratty bad behaved children were suspended from school and their parents were saddled with the problem. Today the lack of home training child is sent to a school where the State, funded by taxpayers, deal with the problems while trying to teach them CRT, unworkable math and assorted so called social justice issues.