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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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A year of healing? Are Lighthead and Kim Foxx resigning?
Same vibes.
Fairytales, Unicorns, and Teletubies. Solutions-No.
““There’s no finish line when it comes to advancing racial equity. …”
Which translates into –
“There will never be *enough*, we will NEVER be satisfied, we can get everything our hearts desire & still it won’t be enough”…
Her salary is a gigantic waste of money. She needs to go and the pOC better stop their complaining until they can learn to live in a civilized society. They have been unable to assimilate into culture and society.
T Shirts and commemorative coffee cups! With Lori’s picture! The year of mitigation! If you can’t do anything, justify your existence by promoting moronic sht! Toots on the loose!
Year of Healing LOL!
Should be “Year of Not getting shot in Chicago!”
Where do these people come from?
Amazing how society has a whole thrived without diversity, inclusion and equity leeches.
For things to improve they should be replaced with unbiased thinking individuals with a mind to improve the lives of ALL citizens, not just selected classes.
I thought this was covered with the Civil Rights Act in ’64. Silly me.
The *Just-Us System* is a huge money maker for *just-us*…
If you’re not in the *just-us* group (which many of us are not) then you don’t matter…
It’s just another way to divide us all…
““There’s no finish line when it comes to advancing racial equity. …”
Wha, wha, what?
Ain’t that something.
“Healing” = Forget about everything bad we’ve done.
Fixed the headline for you:
“Chicago Is A Broke-Ass, Unflushed Crime Toilet — But City Hall’s Top Priority Is Destroying Historical Monuments That Aren’t Woke Enough”
You’re Welcome!!
Rather than more “equity” rhetoric, let’s address the underlying social conditions that cause antisocial behaviors (starting with “gangbanging”) by POC young adults, and honestly discuss that.
Oops, not politically correct, may offend CTU. But plenty of POC folks frankly acknowledge that SJW advocacy has harmed black communities by excusing criminality as “reparations”, and by stupidly demonizing all police. Wait for 2022 Chicago murder rate to continue to climb past 2021 count.
Will the conversation about culture and community safety include a discussion about a culture that condones young men using guns to settle issues of “disrespect”? Nah, they would rather scream “systemic racism”, then go to the prayer vigil that night.
How about in school instead of teaching critical race theory they teach conflict resolution.