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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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If no one is reading the reports, the police should stay on the streets and skip documenting how one gang member killed another gang member. I would guess JB doesn’t even know what is in half the bills he signs. They need to get rid of the SAFE-T act first and then let’s see how much new crime there is. Filling out reports for the same individuals released time and time again accomplishes nothing.
Most crime is white on white, black on black and so forth. When these reports show 13% of the population which is black, account for over 50% of the murder victims, liberals will start screaming racism and the facts of where violence occurs will be ignored.
How can liberals have watched news reports in Chicago for years and not realize who is committing the murders? Did they think white kids were sneaking into the inner city and killing blacks?
You really have to want to believe a narrative to not understand who is committing the violence.