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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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You need to start arresting and locking underage offenders and stop send them home to their guardian, just to repeat offenses. There are no consequences for their actions, so why would they stop committing crimes?
This holds true for just about anything going on in Chicago. Let’s not hold the violators accountable, let’s make everyone pay the price for those that cant and give them every excuse as to why there behavior is what it is. I think once every one realizes that there are consequences to their actions and that they will be accountable them maybe we will see a drop in violence. Instead of spending millions in migrants, how about redirecting that money toward increasing a police presence and more training.
If bump stocks really could make a firearm shoot 400-800 rounds a minute like liberal news says. (Nothing on the planet can come even close to that)
Problem could be solved very quickly.
Now,Now, you all know that as Zippy has told us, the youngins are just funnin.
Don’t be callin them little Capones.
Let them youngins be funnin all through
The DNC gala, this truly will be a sight to behold.