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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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Forget children, BD Lori and friends don’t want to arrest anyone! That’s why you have a violence problem.
But yet one Alderman person said on abc7 Chicago we cannot have a police officer running around shooting are innocent children but yet this was a 13 year old child ya know it’s your own poc stop your bull crap already please just stop it
“No, we don’t want to arrest children,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot said.
Lori, you are a dolt. If there are no consequences there will be no change of the rioter’s behavior.