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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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Any bets on the shooter being a thug visiting his girlfriend there on a scholarship that isn’t even attending class or visiting a homie athlete that doesn’t go to classes either? Maybe someone there to settle a hood beef or collecting on a drug debt? Or someone that got “ disrespected “ ?
And there’s a description of the shooter……..hmmmmm. Without reading the article I knew who
At least we’ve broken through the wall of positively, never, don’t even think about identifying the perp as BLACK even when it’s obvious from footage, eyewitness accounts etc, at least for the most part. Some media still appeases BLM.