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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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Joke?? This is a joke. A horse walks into a bar and the bartender asks – Why the long face?
Folks, the 2nd Amendment is there right now for situations when the police are only minutes to hours away.
Always remember to carry your metal American Express card. Don’t leave home without it!
Yes, but the reality is that the moment you exercise your 2nd amendment rights against the Protected Classes – aka criminal thugs – you will be charged with a crime, and likely convicted, and you will be sent to jail. This is the reality of living in the early days of a Soviet Union style communist regime. You are unimportant to the regime, but criminal thugs are important to the regime. Imagine if Kyle Rittenhouse had patrolled riots in Waukegan or Wheeling instead of Kenosha. Kyle would have been convicted by a jury of Democrat apparatchiks in less than 20… Read more »
Debtsor, I’ll admit that it’s a difficult situation for the law abiding. No doubt Foxx will make an example out of any questionable case.
Still, gang bangers may force you to make a split second decision. Do I want to be carried by 6 or judged by 12?
Godspeed.
The naivety of these progressives Democrats who thought that defunding the police would be living in the suburbs. AOC even said that higher levels of policing is the cause of increased crime! They naively assumed that no police would mean Vernon Hills; but in reality, it means Venezuela.