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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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Where is “Moms Demand Action” when you need them? Crickets from that gun grabbing Marxist Lobbying Group. We need to keep calling them out for their agenda and their silence when it comes to gun crimes and murders in Blue Cities.
Not one arrest. The Chitty at its finest. The cops Serve and Protect.
Want a cop call Punta Gorda, Fl.
The police can be no more aggressive than the courts and their superiors allow. Surely you must realize they have numerous constraints. The days of legendary fictional rogue cop Dirty Harry are long gone. Street justice to the extent and extreme you’d probably prefer is a sure-fire career killer. Any policeman with a positive I.Q. and a long-term career perspective knows when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em.
It’s an unfortunate relic of Chicago’s past that even aggressive crime stoppers like Jon Burge couldn’t put a dent in Chicago’s generation long crime wave. He crossed the line many, many times, and for what? Nothing, crime only got worse throughout his career. Beat cops today know the same. Nothing they do is going to stop the crime wave until the community itself decides to stop raising super-predator teenagers.
Now, there’s finally a statement where I can agree with you. Core community values are of prime importance. Nobody can forever swim against the prevailing current.