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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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Maybe Johnson’s next step will be to erect monuments and statues of famous Chicago criminals, serial killers, thugs in hoodies carrying guns, …etc. After all, they should be glorified since they were only “living out their pain.” In Johnson’s world, the crime victims are the ones who are forgotten. No justice will ever prevail here. No one in custody, still under investigation, no arrests have been made…..
Today I heard him call it a “layered approach”. What exactly does that look like in practice? I loved watching Lightfoot’s, virtue laden, dripping-with-emotion press conferences, it seems Johnson is going to take the rhetorical nonsense to a whole new level. Fascinating to listen to the Left.
I don’t want to sound conspiratorial, but if you wanted to create a police force separate and distinct from CPD, you couldn’t just legislate a new police force; but instead, you would create a crisis response force, that eventually morphs into a fully armed, and woke, law enforcement arm. CPD is slowly defunded and the ‘crisis responders’ grow until they are the primary law enforcement in Chicago.
BJ the Race Clown says crime thug mob wilding is just “yewts” being “silly”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/brandon-johnson-thinks-violent-criminals-are-just-being-a-little-silly
I got your plan Johnson. Ready? Enforce the law! That’s your plan Johnson; go tell it on the mountain.
Link is to a trib articale