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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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Had he been caught, he would have been released. SJWs reign in Cook County.
Had he been shot or killed they would’ve been all over this individual like a fly on you know what, and if he was white omg look out downtown Chicago.
And wait for Lightfoot and Fox to castigate the business owner for “taking law into own hands”.
Yeah, but he’ll be back to try to do it somewhere else… Maybe a different outcome could have served as a better deterrent.
The guy with the gun wasn’t messing around. Well done. The would be thief had to go home and change his laundry. He took the brown line home.