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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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Tie the hands of Police and the city will be gone!…… end of story
How about the terribly violent deaths that occur on a daily basis in Chicago? Terribly violent deaths that are overwhelming committed by POC. Terribly violent deaths that are ignored by the joke of a states attorney, Cabrini Kim, Chief Judge Evans, Sheriff Dart etc. Until the powers to be address the violent felons allowed to roam the streets without fear of prosecution Shut Up about the police involved shootings that average about 20 a year, 99.5% totally justified, .3% too close to call good or bad and .2% who knows. The news media is fanning the flames of racial unrest… Read more »
Ever try to google the arrest history of these criminals shot by the police. Pretty much impossible to find. But our dummies in the media are quick to put out the complaint history of the cop. Here’s how the narrative looks – show a bad photo of the cop, hopefully they can find one where he looks angry and then show a photo of the criminal that got shot, usually his eighth grade graduation photo with his cap on. These cops have an extremely tough job and our elected officials are making it tougher.
But in his 8th grade grad picture he 23yrs old