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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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Remember when we were shocked to read when a kid brought a knife to school?
Show these punks a real weapon, demonstrate on them how a Chicago Typewriter functions, 100 round magazine
Of course.
Gangstas don’t need foid cards and they can have any kind of gun they want.
Not sure but a Glock 17 fully automatic is not the machine gun I expected. The “Old Painless” M-134 minigun from Predator that Jesse Ventura used or Puff the Magic Dragon from the Green Beret is a machine gun but they all can inflict lots of carnage in a short time.