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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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While police officers killed is climbing….
If you don’t listen to a police officer whatever happens next I DON’T CARE!
So what’s the percentage of crimes that haven’t been reported to doctor the figures
People giving up on reporting crime, crimes pled down to misdemeanors or dismissed and unknown crimes all add up to crowing from the SJW’s that “ restorative “ and “ holistic approaches ” to crime are knocking the numbers down. Add in fewer people to victimize due to avoiding CHI or abandoning IL altogether, and we can see how REPORTED crime is down.