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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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Based on everything publicly known so far about this case, I dunno that it is so much a Black vs. White issue as it is a “thin skinned and trigger happy cop” vs. “a frightened and vulnerable person, possibly with mental health issues” issue. I cannot help but wonder if the cop in question (who bounced among a number of local PDs before being hired by Sangamon Co, and seems to have a less than stellar reputation where he has served) wouldn’t have reacted the same way if Sonya Massey were white. No one of any color wants cops like… Read more »
Grifter Joe has no idea who Sonya Massey is. And never will.
Democrats only care when a white person shoots a black person. Since that’s one out of 1,000 times a black person is shot, they are usually quiet. The other 999 times, it’s black shooting black. No political points to make there.
Ever the opportunest, Joe ( or whomever is writing his statements these days ) can’t wait to make hay of a black person shot by a white, especially a white policeman. No word on the people he let waltz across the border killing American citizens , though. No word on blacks killing blacks and non- blacks alike though. No word on police being assaulted and killed by blacks though. Truly a one way street.