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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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If you can’t charge a car-jacker after arrest, then you can’t contain carjacking problem here in Chicago.
We have a systemic criminal-prosecution problem: interstitial wokedness resulting in criminals held in greater esteem than their victims.
Brown’s blanket, he cuts a foot off the bottom and sews it to the top for better coverage. Backlash? No more dressing like undercover feds in their khakis.
There can’t be a day that goes by that Supt Brown doesn’t wonder why he ever came here. He is in a no-win situation. Lightweight talks out of both sides of her mouth. She, along with Judge Tim and Lil Kim, created the lawlessness environment that is Chicago, while King Pritzker did the same across the state of Illinois. All under the “equity” umbrella. The year of reckoning has arrived.
He doesn’t care, this was a big check for him in addition to the pension he already receives, he makes that more than apparent by the way he acts and the goofs he promotes (lookin at you Kommandant Karter). For him to be fired, Lightfoot would have to admit she failed, which she would never do, so Brownie gets to stay, doing nothing and eating his steak dinners with security posted out front. He’s actually in a win-win situation.
He dresses well in his SAS commando sweater. If he wore all his honorary ribbons like the Kommandant it would ruin the threads.
David, they can’t be parents. They can’t teach values, standards, ethics, and expectations…
Until we address the root causes of the unfettered crime afflicting our city, nothing will change.
Wake up.