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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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Rep Ford showing his lying eyes again. The evidence shows that the criminal justice system has not been unfair to blacks for “for all of these years”. In fact, it shows the exact opposite for quite a long time now. The ‘tough on crime’ era ended in the late 90’s and Chicago hasn’t been tough on crime for well over a generation now. This is reflected in arrest stats, prison sentence lengths, dropped charges, and so on. Falling crime rates for almost three decades has meant fewer prosecutions and charges compared to the previous three decades of the 70’s, 80’s… Read more »
Didn’t take long for the race card to come into play.
Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.
One of the best TV theme songs ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HNWhVXcjV8
Chicago criminal court judges are mostly soft on crime social justice shit-rats — Rep Ford is having another one of his race clown outbursts.