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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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Keel Da Boer
I wonder if groups like the Latin Kings, Gangster Disciples or any of the other gangs in Chicago will be weeded out of the police department. Probably not. Hell they might even get a diversity award.
Don’t forget BLM or the New Black Panthers!
Gangs are as integrated in these communities as lawyers are in upper-middle class white communities. Everyone the ‘hood knows a gang banger – they are your siblings, cousins, friends, neighbors, upstanding community members, etc. Everyone is either in the gang, knows a gang member or is tangentially involved in a gang, just as in upper middle class white communities, everyone either is a lawyer, has a lawyer family member (or multiple), or lives near one, knows one, works with one…You can’t root them out in either case, they are unfortunately just there.
Will this include those in or associated blm and antifa ??? They are also hate groups .
Task groups in IL exist only to hire their friends. Never accomplish any but to increase spending.
Again, who will determine what constitutes membership to a hate group or what is considered one? Will it be Proud Boys ( started as a joke, btw), MAGA, the Oath Keepers, the Fraternal Order of the Moose? This is a thinly veiled attempt to purge the ranks of the CPD and replace them with holistic, healing peace keepers and violence interruptors, plain and simple.