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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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Can’t help but notice there is no identification of the perpetrators as black or white. In law enforcement classes that is one of the basic ID factors trainees are taught. It narrows the universe of suspects down immediately– that is if you are not politically correct and really want to catch the bad guys.
It would have been revealing to ask the victim who he last voted for Mayor, Gov, and President.
Hmmmm….Aug 22, YTD 536 Chicago murders! 2020 total 522. Hmmm….Lori? She’s happy, Afganistan is providing lots of shade. Probably for a long time.
Lori Lightweight better pull her indignant head out of her behind and get this problem addressed. People deserve to feel and be safe on the streets of downtown. Make it a priority with a completion date of yesterday or you’ll be a one term mayor, pinhead. She is an absolute disaster.
Well said.
The guy should get himself a lawyer who will sue Foxx for “personal endangerment” due to her willful and intentional failure to conduct required prosecution of arrested violent offenders. Ditto for woman hospitalized for her beating-related injuries, who identified her attackers in photo line-up, only to discover Foxx declined to charge these positively-identified malignant youth-offenders – I’d be horrified enough to want to sue both City of Chicago, mayor and CPD chief personally, and Foxx. Until we folks use self-initiated court-system legal actions to pursue these crime-enabling SJW-BLM law-enforcement politicians, mayor, and CPD top-dog, this crime spree will continue unabated,… Read more »
It would be nice if it would work, but all public officials enjoy qualified immunity – they cannot be successfully sued.
Hmmmm… was he attacked with a stapler. Outrageous, this happening in a Welcoming City like Chicago; Lori Lightfoot Mayor.