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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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Being black has always been dangerous when it comes to dealing with cops. It is true as I have seen it for many years. Did some commit crimes, yes. But being Black is NOT a crime.
Whites commit lots of crimes also. Cops can and do get away almost all the time.
For years cops would drive DUI and the laws were never enforced on them.
Never gonna click that link to give the globalists any ad revenue. But without reading the article, I can say with 100% certainty that too few people were arrested and prosecuted for their crimes during the St. Floyd riots. Those riots, and the August riots that followed, were the turning point for Chicago because it will never go back to being the way it was. Those riots are what did it. I was recently invited to dinner in downtown to meet with some colleagues, I told them no way, why would I go downtown, when I could drive to Oak… Read more »