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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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I don’t think that they’ve been vary effective for the hundreds of victims, some murdered, since judge Evans began this “ empty the prisons “ nonsense long before the horrendous Safe T Act was shoved down everyone’s throats. Offenders are going to do the only thing that they know how to and escalate their game until someone gets murdered. Only then will they get the long stay at the Graybar Hotel they deserve and strove for their entire lives.