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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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As meaningless as spit!
Providing services to the needy should be done through private charity organizations. Just activating more $$ onto a welfare card creates opportunities for predatory thugs to force single mothers to hand over the card to get their child back as happened with that creep In Wisconsin recently.
Get the F_ck out of office all of you and make way for people that do care.
That is a better headline.
“”We are so quick to point the finger at one another to blame for the increase in violence. I say we are all to blame – government and corporations alike, who in the sake of saving dollars, we always seem to cut the services to the most needy,” Moore said.” Ah yes, the greedy vampire squids who’ve yet to find a way to extract any money out of these poor asset communities are somehow responsible for 19 year teenagers seeking thrills and excitement in the thug life of gangs, drugs and crime. And if they die and get shot, the… Read more »
Time to blame the criminals, not the society they prey upon.
“Black Crime Matters”
These communities are insular and the family structures are very interconnected. Generations of young men breeding many children with multiple women has led to very large extended families. Everyone in the community is only one, two or three degrees separated from each other. Not inbred, but interconnected, where multiple women in the neighborhood share the same father of their children, and so on, leading to lots of second, third counsins situations living closeby. It’s common to have five generations of one family (newborn 0 , mother 18, grandma 39, great-grandma 54, great-great gramda 72) all living in Pullman or Roseland,… Read more »