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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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There are millions of young people in the United States and here in Illinois who are smart, caring excellent people. What is happening here is a different subset. Sure would like to think that there is a solution to solve this problem without law enforcement getting into it, but likely not. These kids have no direction, no future they can see and no supervision and no fear of anything…except growing up and some don’t see that happening either. For many, the parent examples they see at home are likely the same behavior. In many of these folks world, the only… Read more »
About the unruly and violent teenage behavior that’s reducing her business’s revenue, the owner said: “We’re simply helpless. We don’t know what we can do to help the situation.”
It’s not up to the business owner to correct this situation. It’s up to the City of Chicago. In other words, she’s screwed.
Would like to add that the teens who volunteer at the animal shelters in my town are a delightful bunch of caring people. If you’ve got time on your hands, you can take a dog for a walk or help care for abandoned pets.
So you think the teens wilding in Streeterville on Friday nights should be walking the orphaned dogs in your community animal shelter? Ok, please send address, let’s see if this works. I’ll post it in triplicate at our local 7-11 which gets looted every third weekend by these rowdy teen-scene south-side and west-side kids. Maybe they’ll read it and wise up, do community service instead.
No, that’s not what I meant. I think the teen takeovers are scary. I think looters should be arrested. I don’t see any easy answers, especially in Democrat-run cities that have endured Soros-backed prosecutors. Do I think any of the teens wilding in Streeterville would be interested in volunteer work? Probably not. Or maybe one in 100 kids. I have no idea. I’m pretty pessimistic. Volunteering at an animal shelter is just one example I’ve seen of how some teens use their time constructively and make better choices. When it comes to lawless behavior and the human condition, former detective… Read more »
Very interesting to read the comments from the condo owner and the business owner. The condo owners are afraid to walk out the front door to walk to church. The doorman was injured when teens tried to enter the condo building. Just scary..The restaurant owner is afraid for the safety of the employees and the customers…and wondering if business can survive these unpredictable teen gatherings. The lack of law and order is driving out residents and productive workers. Why so many aimless young people? And the aimless teens who are missing an empathy chip are going to end up damaging… Read more »
And just imagine what these teens are going to grow up into. You are witnessing the birth of the next generation of criminals and welfare recipients.
Perhaps Cheung could sit down with the non- Capones and discuss why they are angry, their lack of parenting and education, etc. while they tear up the businesses and menace would be customers in a holistic, healing approach to solving the problems, suggest Six Percent and other egg head, think tank liberals that refuse to solve or even logically address the shenanigans .
You can move right out of Illinois for starters!