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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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In conjunction with the wallet squeezing 25 mph soon to be enacted, let’s put speed bumps in all of the intersections in the city/ county etc. This will insure adherence to the law and put the kabosh on this “ drifting “ nonsense.
Rather rude of these kids doing all of this with assorted cars and not, as I would assume, patriotically using made in Illinois Rivian vehicles. All in all Rivian needs the business and all Illinoisans, criminal or not, should be pitching in to do their part to save that tax funded failing car maker
At this point, do you ask yourselves why have any laws at all?
So they can be selectively enforced against political opponents.
Thank you. I forgot.
In front of Fletcher luxury car dealership. Emblematic of what Chicago has become under Mayor Lightfoot, and now doubly so, under incompetent and irresponsible Mayor Johnson. Seems he and his City Hall deputies most enjoy the mayhem. Took the Feds/Secret Service to provide relative calm during the Democratic National Convention. Perhaps Chicago is ready for receivership, for Federal oversight 24/7. Cue the moving vans, because there are plenty of white-collar high-wage families planning their exit from Chicago north-side lakefront “Green Belt” in the coming year. It’s become untenable to live here without feeling like we’re trapped in Gotham within a… Read more »
Just another reason to avoid River North and Old Town.
I drove past there on Friday night about 11pm and there were tons of young people. I even asked someone if they opened a new night club or something around there as the placed was swamped with people all looking under 30. So this had to have been planned somehow as I never before saw so many people there ever. Some sort of “media” had to have been used to have got the word out to come over
And of course Marvin the Martin ( Brandon ) will state there just being kids, hope you rot in prison.
What percentage of those vehicles were stolen? Those lowlifes don’t have the means to buy and destroy their own cars. The media covers these takeovers because it makes for good television, but they typically don’t report on the underlying crime. This article contains no facts regarding arrests. Chicago is a city without a soul.