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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 guess the IL and Chicago pols would prefer ICE agents continue to be obstructed, harassed, and injured without any federal help.
No one knows theatrics or does them better than the left that flop on the ground rolling around in agony when looked at sideways by a police officer, ICE agent, etc.
Putzger and Pinhead are shaking in their Gucci shoes. If this works and crime gets deterred than their policies will look like shit.
Agree with Pritzker, “We cannot normalize militarizing American cities and suburbs. Make sure you know your rights and stay alert.” Yet through far left and “progressive” policies we already have normalized rampant crime with lax laws and policies that place higher value on how criminals are treated and very little on victims and consequences; this is what Pritzker and others have wrought. The tide has to turn back to rational law enforcement. Is it? Will it? Not with Pritzker, Preckwinkle, Johnson, the DSA, and so on. Hard to be hopeful. Single party rule by a party off the rails way… Read more »