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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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Guns and drugs and carjacking is what is being taught in the CPS as of now. Students come out learning at a 3rd grade level. There are lots of criminals and more on the way every day. The poor immigrants are used to crime so it will be just like home for them. Chicago has become a war zone over the last decade.
IL has 4,000,000 background checks last year. Yet, in three weeks, they’re going to effectively ban most semi-automatic guns in the state.
They’re afraid of you. Because they know, that we know, that they hate us.
It just shows how out of touch the politicians are if they think some law out of Springfield is going to take away our guns.
Unconstitutional laws will be ignored.
Right, buy a firearm thru a federally licensed dealer. Present your Illinois firearm owners ID, get a state background check, get a federal background check, pay state taxes on a legally purchased item and the have the state of Illinois turn you into a criminal felon possibly within a month. Makes sense to me.
In Chicago and Illinois, law and order is being replaced by a system that serves only the filthy lowlife criminals. You are now your own first responder.