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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 people do not feel safe they will not go to the place that is unsafe.
This simple concept seems to escape people like Lori Lighthead.
I won’t be paying the price that the Fibune has suggested. You will never catch me ever again in Chiraq. It was fun while it lasted but is nothing more than a free fire random kill zone now.
The Tribune thinks “We’ll all pay the price”? Guess again Trib lefties! The downtown is dead to many, many people now. Evenings and weekends are now owned by the thugs. And the people with money know it, but no thanks to the shoddy reporting in your fish wrap paper. They’ll spend their money in the suburbs, or better yet, in another state at their new residence. So no, we won’t pay the price. Plus Lori and her tribe do not care about Broadway shows, I’m guessing these shows are oppressive or racist or exclusionary or whatever this week’s anti-white word… Read more »
That’s telling em!
You’re right on pretty much everything except about the Broadway shows. Some other anonymous internet poster once said that Modern theater exists only to reaffirm the far left progressive views of its patrons. Progressive policies are what killed progressive theater in Chicago. Which is entirely consistent with the progressive mindset to destroy everything without regard for consequences.
So progressive=regressive?
Absolutely. Our bronze age antiquarians had very regressive beliefs about abortion and infanticide. Supposedly the romans made extinct some plant that could cause abortions and they greeks/Carthaginians would regularly participate in infanticide. The progress was the Christians who abandoned these ancient practices. Some members of society today are hellbent on returning to the regressive values of our ancestors and disregarding all of their wisdom.
That’s the trendy stuff at the smaller theaters. Downtown is usually just Broadway revivals and more family oriented shows. Good luck drawing families into the Loop.