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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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I know that CHI is a special critter in it’s own category, but if other states can have less Draconian gun laws without half of the problems that IL has, then I don’t see why the rest of the state can’t. If things such as the never enforced enhanced penalties for having a modified/ stolen firearm were, maybe it would make a difference. But like the no gun zone signs, they are merely a source of amusement to criminals.
The goal of gun laws isn’t to stop crime, it is to punish conservative voters like us. Only when you accept that the Democrat majority hates you, wants to put you in prison, wants you to leave the state, does it all starts to make sense. It is a necessary premises to accept that Springfield hates straight white men, and every piece of legislation flows from that. The handful of straight white men in Springfield now are feeding the us to the aligators hoping they, as straight white men, are eaten last.
“ The ride on the tiger’s back is rough, falling off is even worse “ a wise man once said.
Long terms in prison solves a lot of problems because the problems are sitting in a steel box for 40 or 50yrs or more. Go in when you are 18 and walk out when you’re 70 would send a message.