-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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.
SIGN UP HERE FOR OUR FREE WIREPOINTS DAILY NEWSLETTER
I see it playing out this way:
Wash – rinse – repeat. That’s how you disarm the law-abiding public.
Pat S, you forgot the magic words
Stupid Chickens!!!!
He is fine with it being enforced? OMG. Mr. Morrison needs to read up on true History and see what has happened in any Country when citizens gave up their guns or the Government confiscated them. Not a path we want to go down. A Path of Marxism will be the end for ALL of our freedoms.