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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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The best think Illinois can do is provide free firearms and ammunition to the legal residents of the state, it’s everyone for yourself here. Cops are overwhelmed, over numbered, and over regulated but the leftist weenie protectors still wearing their masks like good criminals do.
Let’s declare this without any ambiguity:
The problem in Chicago is the residents. The police cannot stop criminals from committing crimes. The local judicial system, like almost all of Chicago politics (state too) is populated by, well, we all know. And, they have enabled lawlessness and chaos.
Keep your families safe.
It’s not blacks like you imply. The system is populated by DEMOCRATS. It’s a philosophy and worldview that brings out the worst in humanity. Sure, Blacks may commit a majority of the crimes in Cook County, but that’s almost irrelevant because everyone involved in the judicial system is Democrat. It’s been like this for decades. Crime is high right now, undoubtedly, but its still well below 1970’s or 1990’s levels before blacks controlled most levers of government. It’s all traceable to Democrats. Democrats want to bring race into everything and as soon as you bring race into things, you’re just… Read more »
Pretty racist to say he implied Blacks, maybe he was talking Democrats, your the one that comes off racist.
Wake up, Chicagoans- elections have consequences, like your 6% mayor Johnson who, in spite of his performance, is not subject to recall.
Good luck!