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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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What about investigations into the Illinois legislators and governor who shoved the no bail, safety Act (go ahead murder, riot and rob) legislation onto the people of Illinois! Garland investigates this murder, how about all the others that go on each and every day in Chicago and Illinois. I guess the charge of murder only applies to certain people and their ethnicity. The scales of justice are lopsided!
So you want legislators and the governor to be investigated for passing and signing a law that you disagree with? What crime do you think they have committed? Let’s be clear, you are comparing the murder of a 6 year old boy with a law that was duly passed by our representative government simply because you don’t agree with the law. You really lack basic common sense and decency.
Lana merely described South Africa, or Nigeria, or Venezuela, even Bolshevik Russia, all failed states with high crime and low incarceration rates, with corruptly elected officials. These regimes let certain categories of criminals go free while others are punished harshly. Obviously, the man who stabbed a mother and child to death is pure evil. And likely, extremely crazy, just look at the picture of the guy, he looks mentally ill. But this is a local issue, a local crime, to be handled by local officials. There will be justice. There’s really no need for the Feds to step in as… Read more »
I think you missed this part “how about all the others that go on each and every day in Chicago and Illinois”. Horrible crime but I think a lot of kids are killed in Chicago, is Garland doing anything about that? This is nothing more than using a tragic murder to make political points.
Spot on Pete. Kids in the community are kilt all the time with nary a peep from Lack of Merrit but woe to the white supremists among us.
Of course it’s political. Hate crimes only exist because of their political nature. My point was about the absurdity of investigating a law that was duly passed merely because you disagree with the law and then comparing that to the murder of a child. It’s grotesque.
That perp should have robbed that kid too and he’d avoided the wrath of Lack of Merrit.