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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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I have whiplash from Lori’s flip from condemnation of a <100 person stay at home order protest Monday to encouraging protestors to come downtown today as long as they wear masks and practice social distancing ?! Sadly, the situation is a powder keg across the country – which epidemiological models account for the mental health impacts of 25% unemployment, no school, and breakdown of social structure? Not to downplay how serious covid can be for at risk people, but to pretend there aren’t trade offs and to scold people for wanting basic human connection is naive at best.
The only Black Lives That Matter are Blacks murdered by Whites. ☹️
Black on Black murders are never protested. ?
Treja Kelly was murdered, for testifying against her husband’s murderer. Nobody protested that. ?
Seems to me that Lori is inciting violence.
Lightfoot is derelict in her duty. The Constitution protects our right to assemble and our right to free speech. It is rational to protest the irrational crime seemingly perpetrated in Minn… Nowhere (and, as a lawyer, she should know this) does it protect the right to threaten harm, or harm, others persons and the property of other persons… On Friday, she made this about Trump – it isn’t about Trump. Knowing there were protests planned, she gave our President a metaphoric finger… And they wonder why crime in some communities runs rampant. Assemble, protest, drive change, but follow the law.… Read more »
Dems projecting every negative incident as “Orange Man’s fault” has been the M.O. for years. Meanwhile, measurable damage of all stripes in blue cities and states….well, not a thing.
Why is the local press so fixated on legitimizing that jackal?