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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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Oooh nooo how can it be ???? toughest gun laws in the country…. That’s right criminals don’t follow the laws!!! Start pointing the fingers at the problem and leave the rest of us alone! Silly me I forgot throw more money and laws at the problem that will fix it
Brain dead politicians
We need to stop asking “How did we get to this point?” and start asking “Who got us to this point?”. It is pretty darn obvious. And if there are not enough Chicagoans willing to answer that question honestly it is hopeless.
The voters got us here. Time for them to take ownership.
CTU/Brandon’s lucky it was raining so much of the Memorial Day weekend.
“signs of improvement”? what a CLOWN
“Progressive leadership”??? That’s what got us into this mess! It started with LBJ, and has “progressively” gotten worse every year.
And No arrests.
Brandon the Magnificent’s holistic, citizen engaged solutions to crime supposedly enacted for the “ traditionally violent Memorial Day weekend “( love the complacent tone of that phrase) doesn’t seem to be working out well.