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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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From Pritzker on down, the entire bunch in
Power in Springfield and Chicago are to blame for these deaths. As long as they allow these punks on the streets and do not take any action they are to blame,
Remember that when they ask for your votes!
The problem is in the black community and the solution is in the black community. Politicians can talk all they want about government intervention, but until that community decides that it is tired of violence, this trend will continue. Unfortunately with all the teenage blacks involved in violence, this trend will take years to play out.
It’s not entirely the black community, but mostly. It’s very unfortunate that a small number of them go around shooting at each other for kicks. The community could reject the ‘snitches get stitches’ mindset and solve much of their problems. But as I like to say, the criminal in the community are only criminals for that split second they are committing the criminal act. The rest of the time they are someone’s son, or a baby daddy, or a caregiver for an older parent, or a source of household income, and so on. Removing the criminal from that social structure… Read more »
This “problem” has been going on for decades and will never be solved by community decisions. Unfortunately the violent criminals from that community have figured out that there are better pickings in the whiter areas. Shootings and homicides city wide involve only about 2% of those evil White supremacists, 98% blacks and hispanics. As they say, the problem is who?