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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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Foxx is happy to appropriately charge Hispanic offenders, has track-record for overcharging any white offenders.
Let’s not forget that white Iowa tourist charged with “terrorism attempt” for accidently bringing his registered guns into his hotel room rather than leaving them in valet-parked truck. And let’s not forget the Austin gangbangers who shot-up neighborhood, injured and killed several combatants, and weren’t charged, because it was “mutual combat” rather than even minor charges for unregistered unlawfully obtained weapons discharged in public-way to endangerment of general public. See, I can do Foxx’s job for her.
Call me cynical, but I think this only shows that Foxx has seen the polls indicating Democrats are losing support among Hispanics.
Which is ironic because she has 95%+ support from the Black community precisely because she refuses to charge black defendants.
They all came together? If they are not resigning I don’t care!
Wow! I am so impressed. Once during kimmy’s tenure she is actually going to do the right thing. It makes me so proud.
Pull my finger.
That would be more useful and meaningful than anything all three of them have ever done.