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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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At least one, maybe two mass shootings every week in Chicago. The Feds better have a permanent force of mass shooting experts ready to go.
XXXL was asked to write the letter because no one at City Hall knows how to.
NO OTHER CITY HAS MASS SHOOTINGS LIKE CHICAGO I WOULDNT GIVE THIS CITY A DIME
Rather see headline “residents request same level of prosecution and support for police to do their jobs that those in non “progressive” places get”