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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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Holllywood dickheads have created the law and order mess by demonizing cops — F*** them — let them go hire Paul Blart, Mall Cop, for secirity
People take preference over Movies. Our taxpayer dollars should not be funding this. Especially in light of the hypocrisy coming from these Hollyweird phonies. They push gun control on the masses, yet hire their own security guards to protect themselves – not to mention the violence they promote in tv shows and movies. Let them hire their own security guards for protection. Maybe these actors should be coming out and chastising Lightfoot and Fox for the crime the increase in crime.