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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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The truly depressing part of this article is that the perps murdered this poor child, then went to get a Subway lunch like it was just another day.
No conscience. No remorse. No contemplation.
It is long past time that these thoughtless creatures be given the same treatment. These thugs are an abomination, a contagion that needs to be eliminated. A crime like this is a one and done offense. No hiding behind juvenile justice. The two Subway munchers that did this should never walk the streets again.
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I wonder, in all honesty, if this mother regrets illegally crossing the Rio Grande this past summer…
Note: the family’s immigration status is artfully missing from any articles.
Interesting.
And before the Karens pile on, no matter immigration status no one should be victimized, least of all a child.
Of course, no one should be victimized, the point is to prevent crime from happening in the first place. But the City’s policy of welcoming illegal immigrants has turned many neighborhoods in Chicago into third world cities not dissimilar from the places they left, and they bring with them crime and poverty. The per capita income of Little Village is $11,000 a year, which is only 1/3rd of the city’s per capita income, and there is a 15% unemployment rate and 35% poverty rate. That’s a poor place but likely a major step up from whatever tiny rural village in… Read more »