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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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So sad. Is it any wonder that nobody wants to be the Chicago Police anymore.
THIN BLUE LINE: ANOTHER CHICAGO COP SHOT DEAD — AND FAKE PROSECUTOR/USELESS SHIT-BIRD KIM FOXX IS TO BLAME: Murderer Who Killed A Chicago Police Officer Wednesday Was Arrested Last Summer, But Kim Foxx Prosecutors Rejected Felony Charges – CWB Chicago
The officers blood along with the blood of many other victims is dripping from the hands of the Cook County States Attorneys office who regularly refuse to charge violent criminals by demanding more and more evidence in many slam dunk cases. Restorative justice in action and it doesn’t work.
Read that article a few minutes ago, and wasn’t surprised to learn that the officer’s murderer was someone who got thru the “criminal justice” system for a prior violent gun crime with a kiss on the forehead. As I opened the CWB article, I was actually thinking that I wasn’t going to be shocked to learn that another gang-thug with an arrest record but no subsequent punishment (or inconvenience, really) had killed the officer. People arrested by a police officer who found them illegally in possession of a firearm walk out of jail in moments by the hundreds every day… Read more »