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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 The Defender admitted who is causing most of the problems…
The race card is always played by the group who knows who causes the trouble.
Nice try, but the issue isn’t segregating against races; it’s segregating against violence. If most violence were committed by white people, law-abiding white people would want those offenders out, too.
Roeback conveniently ignores that the gatherings of white people he is targeting, subtly, at Lollapalooza and at Wrigley never result in “ youths “ jumping up and down on cars, looting stores wholesale and shootings and stabbings. He also ignores that Grey threw himself around in a police wagon hoping for a brutality lawsuit but only succeeded in giving himself irreparable brain damage and Brown was killed trying to wrest a policeman’s pistol away from him. Garner had been cited dozens of times for hustling cigs on the sidewalk as well. We’re all wise to the “predatory police “ narrative… Read more »
So how does the Defender propose to corral the feral youths that run amok during their wildings?
LOL!!! Clown show. The ordinance is for all teens. Even though you have a city with a black mayor and a black police superintendent the ordinance must be racist because the perps that led to this are black. Typical no accontability/responsibility coming from race baiting hustlers.
Please read the ordinance. It doesn’t say anything about prohibiting ‘black’ kids from gathering — or white kids, or Asian kids. It does not say anything about race. By your very own comments you are admitting that the problem of these gatherings is with black youth. You are the racist. You know what the problem is. Instead of sounding the fire alarm with racial overtones why don’t you focus on the problem and get all young people off the streets in connection with these street takeovers. You are on a mission– whatever it is. But you are not trying to… Read more »