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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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.
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“ Remember her name!” No protests? No rallies led by activists with a crew of miscreants holding up cardboard signs and chanting mindless slogans over and over with an eye on the ever present, hungry for “ the right kind of story “ media? Nope, we won’t remember this latest victim of “ restorative justice “ just as we have forgotten the name of the woman stabbed at the El stop, the Ukrainian woman brutally murdered due to her skin tone in Charlotte NC, or the stewardess brutality clubbed with a log and crippled for life on the Mag Mile.… Read more »
The only way not to fear for your life on public transportation or in the City of Chicago is to leave for another city and state.