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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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C’mon vendors! Big D Lightfoot already done tolt ya it’s your fault for doing business in cash, and not that of the underserved, victimized offenders. Get with it!
Nuevo Caracas has arrived.
CONTROL YOUR DAMN KIDS ALREADY. Petty street crime like this is a HUGE property value destroyer as people leave to due the perception of crime. These holdups were in broad daylight during business hours. They’re robbing street vendors standing on corners for several dozen dollars in cash.
But they don’t care, you see, they laugh that they destroyed something valuable, and Toni Preckwinkle thinks it is funny that you have the opportunity to deal with the roving bands of teenage super-predators – born and raised in their community – can unleash upon you, deplorable.
Taxwinkle is the strong, silent force behind the majority of Cook County’s/ Chicago’s crime.
Like famous attorney Ben Crump said on video the other day, we could get rid of crime overnight in this county by changing the definition of crime, because our current definition of crime is criminalizing the black lifestyle. ““I tell people all the time, if you looking for something you gonna find it,” Coleman said in the documentary. “So it becomes self-fulfilling in terms of ‘Well we go where the crime is,’ no, you’re going and you’re finding crime and if you went somewhere else, guess what? You find it there too.” “They come up with things to profile us… Read more »
As long as it stays where it’s condoned as “ one those things “ or “ just playin “ and encouraged by rap music and movies, then everyone else doesn’t probably have a problem. Especially those such as myself that used to feel bad about the innocent people caught up in the cesspool, but was derided for speaking the truth. Now I’ve adopted, as many that used to care have, an attitude of keep on your side of the line that needs to be drawn.