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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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The black robed tyrants have ruled that anywhere people are present is a sensitive public place. These scumbags also slapped the disagreeing public in the face that they should relocate. I hope that a new Bernie Getz will appear and take the lives of multiple ghetto rats on L train. Let us see how long these kritarch last.
Not being a lawyer I’m unfamiliar with the legal points involved, but as a layman it’s seems odd to restrict concealed carry on public busses, trains, the EL. Yes, these are enclosed spaces but why is that fact relevant? A person driving a car down an expressway is in an enclosed space on a public right of way and can still be shot in their car. With so much crime on public transit, what is the public benefit to this? Criminals don’t care about such things. In a country with more guns than people it seems only law enforcement of… Read more »
And you thought it couldn’t be made any easier for thugs.
And where do we see the gangs of four or five underserved attacking people? On trains, specifically the aptly named Red Line.
Biden appointed hack go figure