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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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Punishing criminals would help. Crime soars when there are no consequences for criminal behavior.
Crime is caused by criminals, not by the poor.
Build more jails!
If you took the worst 10,000 criminals off the Chicago streets, crime would plummet.
Then to make things even better, jail the next worst 10,000 criminals.
And if that doesn’t do it, jail another 10,000 offenders.
Keep doing this, jailing 10,000 criminals at a time, until all women and children are safe in all neighborhoods 24/7.
This could have been done but they spent the billions needed to do it on more criminals, all the Third World illegals
Guns are here to stay. 2nd amendment guarantees this, if was so the people could overthrow the tyranny of government (like Trump).
The Founders had just fought a revolution against British rule. They believed citizens should have the means to defend themselves if a government ever became oppressive.
The Founders believed that an armed citizenry served as a check on potential abuse of government power.
Pritzger is the real tyrant, he trampled all over the second amendment with his unconstitutional gun and magazine bans.