-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
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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Social Justice is allowing Black people to punish community members with extra-judicial remedies without interference by the police or the court system.
Who among us hasn’t sought revenge against those who dis our rap game?
Grab a bag of popcorn and watch the chit show unfold. Foxx, Evans, Dart, Prickwinkle, and Lightslippers are totally responsible. But somehow it’s Trump’s fault.
You can say shit here. I made it official, by exercising unilateral emergency executive authority. How else can we discuss IL government?
I have my grandchildren’s pictures in my wallet so I have to watch my language, but I got the idea across!
Are we required to capitalize B in Black; and do we have to use the gender-neutral Latinx?
Excrement-feces-fecal matter-deuce-Poo-feculent drainage-feculence-droppings and dregs would also work.
Number two sounds too nice.
Thank God Kim Foxx is doing such a bang up job.
Nothing, absolutely nothing will change until they (politicians) become a victim of there own crime(s) then watch how fast things change, stay tuned folks.