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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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Crime destroys cities. Always has, always will. But I think that’s kind of the point.
Well let’s look on the bright side. Since these robberies occurred between 6 AM and 8 AM these gangbangers have the beginnings of good career habits.
Getting up early and going to work of sorts!
“We have seen this pattern before against our vendors and we will not allow this to continue,” Lopez said.
Yeah… we’ve seen it for quite some time now. It hasn’t been stopped.
No arrests again. This is going to be norm in the Chitty.
Cops only make out reports after the victim waits for hours for them to respond to a call.
Criminals now run the streets, and this is only going to get worse. Families are fleeing because of this, and the mayor seems to ignore the real truth about what is happening.