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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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Mayor’s Office should allow CPD to enforce public right-of-way obstruction charges upon every protester who impedes vehicular access to O’Hare and Midway Airports, and frankly, every major street-artery in Chicago. Such massive inconvenience for so many hundreds of Chicago residents and workers, caused by several dozen pro-Hamas protesters, demonstrates FAILURE of Mayor’s Office to properly govern. Mayor appears unconcerned by added cost-penalty and lost labor-time for his constituents, caused by protest disruptions. Worse, Mayor supports both pro-Hamas/anti-Israel protesters and overtly anti-American sentiment of those protesters – what kind of message is that to Chicagoans? Saturday’s protest-training session, where black-masked activists… Read more »
I think an attorney should file a class action lawsuit against these protesters on behalf of the people trying to get to O’hare. Those Hamas supporters are directly responsible for people missing their flights and incurring additional expense. They should be able to FOIA the arrest records and sue all of them.
It was all coordinated nationally and in Chicago. It sure seems to me that there must be an aiding & abetting charge, conspiracy, or something like that that should be charged against those who organized it.
Wishful thinking. There’s a hierarchy. Democrat voters are allowed to protest and disrupt, but you, deplorable, are not. You are not allowed to protest but they are. And if they are ‘arrested’ after several hours, all charges are eventually dropped. There won’t be any federal charges for obstructing air travel or whatever. But if you, for example, were an old lady doing this at an abortion clinic, they would throw you in jail on federal charges for up to 11 years. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/257273/four-more-pro-life-activists-convicted-under-face-act Its difficult to accept but we are being targeted and prosecuted by our federal government. We – 75,000,000… Read more »
So true but Sad
These are NewAgeNazis, socialists driven by willful ignorance/willful evil to hate and murder Jews (first Jews, then Christians, then whomever their dogwhistle masters sic them upon).
Turning a blind eye to their self-serving murderous hatred is like endorsing their sociopathic end goal of genocide.
Get out the water cannons and canine units and see how they like it. If you’re that concerned about Gaza get on a plane and get over there. The weather’s great and there are daily fireworks displays. You can thank your friends Hamas.
Hey Fox, I’ve fixed your headline: “Chicago Terrorist supporters take over downtown streets, clash with police – FOX32”, You’re welcome.
“ Aided and abetted by council members that voted to condone such nonsense and, like Salgado, attend meetings where “ Death to America “ is chanted and protests where the American flag is burned without censure.”
The citizens of Chicago elected this guy too. The rot in this city goes really deep.