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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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What’s really need is make fatherless households extinct. Since Lightloafers is an abortion advocate I suggest a law that says no welfare, WIC, section 8, food stamps, etc. to any breeder person who is unmarried at the time of birth.
Illinois Democrats Push New Gun Grabs — Bur Won’t Enforce The Gun Laws That Are Already On The Books
Another useless hearing conducted by people who don’t know much about weapons.
The Alton gun shop owner, Pulaski, summed it up nicely:
“Those who may be arrested for committing gun crimes but wind up back out on the street and may face a plea bargain or just be released with charges dropped doesn’t do anything to deter crime.”
Without consequences we can only expect the situation to continue to deteriorate. There is NO POLITICAL WILL TO STOP THE BLOODSHED, just an attack on law-abiding citizens’ 2nd amendment rights.
Axe the Safe T Act!