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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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Block Club Chicago did its usual Dime Store Marxist Puke analysis about the 1969 street criminal street gang takeover of the DePaul Campus.
It’s that kind of ass-hat liberalism that has made Chicago an unflushed crime toilet — where DePaul students are sitting ducks – for career crime thugs that are unlikely to ever see the inside of the cage where they belong.
https://cwbchicago.com/2023/09/4-more-depaul-students-were-mugged-overnight-one-was-battered-another-pistol-whipped.html