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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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Hmmm…..when will we have that difficult discussion about the elephant in the room.
When 80+% of all murders involve blacks and than 5% involve all other races combined, it’s really easy to see why the numbers are so different. Whites only make up about 2% of murders and most of them are domestic so the arrest rate is higher. Making mountains out of molehills as usual by media hacks.
Additionally, there’s likely multiple serial killers preying on vulnerable populations throughout the west and south sides which explains why they struggle to solve the black female murders. The city first must admit there is a problem before it can even try to solve the murder, and it refuses to do so. Now we’ve got the smiley faced killer cult preying on men on the north side. Shocking to think that in a city where crime isn’t prosecuted, that the worst sorts of criminals would proliferate. I’m not going to link to articles about the serial killers because they are too… Read more »