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"The issue facing Chicago voters is not Ron DeSantis. It’s not fantasies of Vallas being a closet Republican. It’s not some wholly imaginary threat to abortion access. Crime poses an existential threat to the city of Chicago. That’s the issue facing voters Feb. 28. They shouldn’t let Lightfoot, Garcia or anyone else distract them with tribal politics appealing to emotion over reason."
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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High cost per student, Zero education = zero job skills. The CPS and CTU is educating the students to be criminals. Cop who do not enforce the laws only reenforce criminal behavior.
The whole system is set up to make money for the government mooches and who gives a damn about any kind of public services? People are fleeing, that says it all.