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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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Root Cause is this generation was cheated out of an education. The Taxpayers were cheated out of millions of dollars in something they paid for and never got. We now have a generation of criminals, with no other job skills. This is going to be a long hangover. Thank you, CPS, and CTU for everything you have done to the Chitty.
Education starts in the home.
Crime enabling La Spata is a disgrace
We’ve got another idiot on the root cause bandwagon! I can’t wait to read the results that the violence task force comes back with in 30 years. “After careful consideration and much time wasting, we have identified the cause of violence to be….white men!”
Chicago deserves its crime with morons like this in charge.
They say that, but the communities from which much of the violence originates are theirs. Root cause? No family unit. No fathers. No values. No respect for others. No respect for an education. No standards. No expectations. Their plight is the fault of all others – never their own.
Honestly, all they need are some mirrors.
They are just silly kids playing silly games. All it takes are more social workers to help them understand their anger.
I’m having difficulty understanding how “root causes” put a weapon in a criminal’s hand, aim, and fire it.
Yep, no consequences for bad behavior leads to more bad behavior….