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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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When you’ve lost the Lincoln Park liberals — who have bankrolled the social justice warriors that have trashed law and order in Chicago — you are in deep s**t.
Until we hold people accountable for their actions…. Until we recognize the failure of liberal policies that destroyed the nuclear family and devalued ethics, standards, education, etc…. Until we recognize certain groups in the city don’t care about assimilation into a productive role in society…
Honestly, when is it enough and when do we as citizens rise up and demand change. At this point, we need more prisons – it would be fine if we enacted harsher sentences and consequences for those who break the law….
Life is about choices – time to make them pay for their actions.
Cook County did imprison many people, until 5/20/2020, when St. George overdosed and died while in police custody. And then cook county stopped imprisoning criminals, and crime increased exponentially. There’s never been a clearer cause and effect in the history of criminology and sociology.
And the police, as directed by Lori, pledged to do better!
Look in the mirror Chicagoans.