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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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Lightfoot’s encryption of police radios does not seem to reduce crime!
Ghetto parties like this have been going on for decades. Nothing was ever done about them in the past and nothing will be done now. Snore.
Blacks are incapable of peaceful gatherings.
Is the expectation that the police are supposed to monitor every party that takes place in the City of Chicago? The same police that have been neutered by the last two administration’s? Good luck achieving those high standards!
Spot on Ex; Old Joe’s never been shot at a party — yet! However, I’ve made it a life practice to avoid hood rats.