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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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Tell me about his daddy…….
His gang leaders have named him “intern of the month”.
This is what they learn in CPS. It is a growth business in the Chitty of Chicago. Gun laws work, teachers and cops do not work.
Perhaps the child’s parents should be prosecuted as well.
Just say’n.
It’s time to stop treating them as “juveniles” and start removing them from the streets for very long periods of time.