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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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Are the speedometers not working in the cars owned by minorities?
Discuss and debate all you want, this is Lori’s only dependable stream. I don’t think CPS provides driver education, so GTA is the only home study option; and the kids love it!
People of color are disproportionately receiving regressive speeding tickets. Cyclists are disproportionately white and want to punish speeders. Privileged white progressives intersecting with their woke DEI values. It’s beautiful.
If I ride motorcycle but identity it as a bicycle do I still get a ticket for speeding? Asking for a friend.
Lightfoot’s Speed Cams are the New Jim Crow
Sorry to disagree, but that title belongs to the public school system that gets paid to not teach minority children to read.
While BLM gets all the coverage about sins against black people, what about speed cameras and mass shootings? Statistics show black and brown people pay the majority of speed violations. Can least afford it. Lori doesn’t care, shafts her own. Get the cash. Meanwhile there are hundreds of articles regarding the Highland Park shootings, biographies of the victims, Go Fund me drives, but I have read no articles on the greater mass shootings same day in Chicago. No biographies of victims, no descriptions of religious services and, catch any shooters? Black people should wise up, their so called leaders are… Read more »
For heaven’s sake, it’s about money, not safety. Even Lori Lightfoot admitted that a few days ago.