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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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Vote RED and be done with all their BS
As long as they feel destroying another person is a reasonable option to achieve your goals, this will continue. They are dehumanizing other gang / tribe / band / social media antagonists and that enables them to pull the trigger.
There’s one thing about this culture of violence. I read a scholarly article about it in college. The places in the world with high rates of violence generally all share the same cultural trait that places high value on personal respect; and if you violate that cultural norm, the offended respond with violence. What I mean is that in these cultures, and I can’t find the correct terminology anymore becuase these types of articles are considered racist and disappear from the internet, is that cultures that place high value on ‘dissing’ or ‘disrepecting’ people have high levels of interpersonal violence.… Read more »
Oh for Christ’s sake! We’ve done midnight basketball, hug a thug, violence interruption, peace circles and other forms of grift that padded pockets and solved nothing and now this. How about using the jails the taxpayers paid money for and filling them like the Black Hole of Calcutta. If lifelong criminals don’t find them comfortable, I really don’t care.
“conflict resolution, mentoring, and mental health services”. Promote healing…Practicing gratitude-manifesting abundance…good God. What a waste of money and time. Zippy’s solution to everything is spend more money…calling it an “investment”…one without a return.
It should be retitled “ Law Breakers”