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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 am all for banning the mass use of tear gas. I advocate going back to a technique pioneered by the Chicago PD back in 1968. Wood shampoos for everyone!
Maybe the journalists should not dress, look, and smell like Antifa terrorists.
Until the journalists realize this, they should expect to be hit with more bug spray.
FYI, I’m really enjoying all of the ICE videos! Fantastic entertainment!
I feel like they’re useless if we don’t prosecute all the employers that used illegal immigrants. So long as they get away with it, there will be a demand for illegal workers and it keep all our wages low, because the absolute horrors of human beings that hire illegal immigrants, often under the table for cash, and for less than even minimum wage, should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law! When those farmers are scared of prison for hiring people not allowed to work in the US, they’ll have no choice but to offer those jobs at… Read more »