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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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This tragedy at least has a name: Christion. Most don’t. We know about this young man only because of his relationship with Pastor Brooks.
Every person who dies in Chicago’s violence deserves to be named and their stories told. It’s almost as if these victims don’t matter … but they do matter to their families, friends and community.
The heartbreak in Chicago is unfathomable.
RIP Christion and all the other victims whose names we’ll never know.
I hear and read so often about such deaths being “senseless.” They are senseless to law-abiding, upstanding citizens; however, to the murderers, these deaths make perfect sense. That’s why such violent criminals shouldn’t be in society unless they’re shown to have been fully reformed after long prison sentences.
Your sons, nephews and baby daddies smoke weed all day and then shoot at each other all night. Few other societies on earth shoot at each other – outside of armed conflict – more than the inner city gang members. If the community can’t solve the problem themselves, then greater society will have to solve it, and it won’t be with midnight basketball and healing houses, but with long prison sentences for criminals that show a tendency towards violence.
Brooks is one of the real good guys in Chicago. Has devoted his life to trying to make things better for people in this metro area who don’t have enough good things in their lives. When all the BLM BS was flying around, he was the one showing up in the Chicago suburbs still talking about fatherless homes, trying to keep young folks in school and getting government to do more to stop violence in the toughest of the neighborhoods. Not enough people listen t him. What a sad story for our City and for a wonderful human being.