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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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According the new mayor BJ The Race Clown, violent teen criminals are just kids making “silly” decisions
https://www.foxnews.com/media/mayor-elect-brandon-johnson-doubles-down-against-demonizing-youth-violent-behavior
A 13 year old committed murder by knife in a schoolyard near me. My thoughts are the fine young individual is back on the streets by now
A 13 yr old recently shot a police officer. Juveniles involved in the murders of two Chicago police officers in the last few months. Juveniles on a daily basis out there committing armed car jackings and street robberies, drive by shootings so the solution is to treat them tenderly? Ain’t gonna work.
Are you in Collinsville? I am. That youth doesn’t deserver more compassion. He deserves a life sentence.
Lets not forget the shooting a couple of days later a block or so from the police station. Crime is an Illinois problem not just Chicago.
Is this also applicable where children are murdering police officers as sport?
Especially them. If cops would just stop policing and harassing black youths committing crimes, then everything would be utopia again.
It would make more sense to repeal bloated legislation that impedes the impartiality of judges.
These days the light on crime folks are the prosecutors, not the judges. The judges just go along with the prosecutor’s recommendations. Judges are elected in the communities they serve just like Kim Foxx is.