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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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The new Obama Temple under construction would be a good location.
” … we are now looking at the second year in a row where we have as a county and as a nation an unprecedented number of people dying of opioid overdoses, the reality is we have to do something different,” she said.”
Yes, we need to do something different, we need to cut into the supply chain by closing our southern border.
The problem solves itself in a way; the users die and stop their purchases of the product. This may sound macabre but like it or not their are no saved life individuals to repeat the process again.
Except they break into your car and steal from retail stores to feed the habit.
Not if they are dead rather than recycled to rob again
There is no such thing as a safe injection site.
I hope they locate them in those northerly located liberal areas so the woke housewives’ can demonstrate their love for others
This is a terrible idea!!! These sites are drug distribution meccas!! These sites do everything possible to further addiction, blight their location and promote drug use. Here’s how the scheme works. Junkies often sell the methadone they get for free to buy harder stuff. They also sell needles that the exchanges give out to buy more drugs; a general rule is that the needle exchanges will give you 2 for 1. One needle is worth $2 or more the further away you get from the exchange site. The end result is an increased supply of ever branching out drug distribution… Read more »
Welcome to San Francisco….
Do you think other states are laughing at Illinois?
Screw the drug addicted. Put $FOR PROFIT$ state-licensed drug injection sites & legalize prostitution at new Baileys Gambling Casino in river north (CTU could run the entire operation w Working Families)…this could be the sin city/ pension-payoff gold mine the state dreams of!!…the people have spoken!!
All state-licensed pot dispensary sites should be forced to also have state-licensed drug injection sites…anything else would be systemically systemic….the people have spoken!!
“ just say no, failed us” No, their parents failed them.
I say yes but let’s put limit them to LaShawns district ( preferably right next door to his home) where his constituents can enjoy this happiness up close and personal.
Also LaShawn, I want a state licensed brothel in Bowmanville that specializes in seniors and gives discounts.
“Safe Injection site” A place guaranteed to transform the area, and it will not be for the better.
If it passes, I assume it will, I wonder how much aid politicians will offer cities throughout Illinois to start one of these sites up and how the left(progressives) and news media, of your city, will sugar coat this idea to bring it to your town.
Please research “safe injection sites” in the US, learn what this is and how it will transform the area. A very Bad idea, but what good comes out of Democratic states, nothing.
Let’s put the first injection site in front of the fat man’s house
The dumbest man in the legislature only needs to look at the ongoing disaster in San Fransicko with their opium dens to discover what an incredibility stupid idea this is. You think the west side is bad now LOL