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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 black lives matters movement demanded less cops on the ground and it happened…
I expect more concealed carry vigilante action. Like the Bernard Goetz NYC of the early 1980’s. When the prosecutors don’t do their job then the citizenry will protect themselves and step in for the prosecutors.
Arrests down and crime is up. But I’ve been told repeatedly by progressives that this wasn’t supposed to happen!
Police Union
“If this guy gets in, we’re going to see an exodus like we’ve never seen before,” he said, before adding that there would be “blood in the streets” if Johnson wins. Catanzara also predicted that 800-to-1,000 officers would leave the force if Johnson wins.
100% for sure, Crime will be up, up and away. CPS just pushed students through the system and taught them zero job skills (except criminal). Businesses are fleeing so there are no jobs. The only growth industry in the Chitty is crime. That said get ready for years of rising crime rates. Honest hardworking people are fleeing the Chitty in increasing numbers.
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