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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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Handout backpacks and pencil boxes. If the marchers or whatever get too loud, the bangers trying to sleep it off will open fire. Too many mass shootings lately. Makes me wonder? A couple a dead teens or young adults and a dozen wounded? Mass shooting? That’s a normal Tuesday in Chicago. Has Lori made a deal with the boys? If you kill the remains must not be found. No body, No victim, No murder. Any new rendering plants going up around McKinley Park? Complain about an asphalt plant? I’ll give you something to complain about!!
That should fix it.
This will surely expel the gangs …