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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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“Which is that many, if not most, of those crimes were probably committed by someone who was desperate, depressed, unemployed, undereducated, addicted to drugs and alcohol, poorly raised — or maybe all of the above.” This ‘editorial’ and article sums up the miserable state of the media today. How so you ask? Well, this quote above is fake news. The editorial suggests that hard core murderous criminals are poor, pitiful creatures, who commit murder, as if it was their fate. This is completely false. Most ‘gun crimes’ in Chicago are drug and gang related. And committed by hard core gangs… Read more »
The numbers are up because the democrats have empowered and enabled the Gerald in exchange for ghetto votes. This is how Cabrini Kim get re-elected. And the sun Times is all in with the enabling of criminals as their reporters are nothing but ass kissers if the machine copying Loris press releases.
Homicide rates are up because of defunding/neutering the police and criminal-loving states attorneys like Foxx