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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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Lighthead is just bat-shit crazy. When’s the next plane to Florida?
Her hubris will be her downfall
She’s a racist who hates John Catanzara who is white. Pure and simpleZ
Time to defund the police, just her security unit,ones protecting her house etc…let them do police work instead of babysitting. Why have them if you have no confidence in them,hire blm for your safety.
Lightfoot has 24/7 police protection, teams of street-cops and CPD supervisors, always around her person, parked at her house, and surrounding her own family. Wish I had the same protective-unit and “free body-guard” privilege here in Streeterville, where I need to be hyper-aware just to walk in my neighborhood. In Streeterville, there are now weekly deadly shootings, in addition to the usual street-crimes of car-jackings, muggings, knife-fights, and general harassment. And normal city services seem suspended altogether; Streeterville’s sidewalks and streets are filthy, trash cans mostly absent and the few usually overflowing. Our real estate taxes seem to purchase ZERO… Read more »
Quite the capricious and unsettling world this person revels in. Sad stuff.
Lori,
You need to go!
I wonder if she calls the police ever, you know if she got robbed or threatened, maybe she does accidentally out of reflex. With talk like this certainly she wouldn’t have the gall to call the police for her safety, why that would violate her principles.
Lightfoot, her home, and her immediate family are surrounded by an ARMY of CPD cops. She’s a proverbial “do as I say, not as I do” politician.
Once again Lori belittles and insults the only straight cis white man she deals with on a regular basis. She’s a racist but we already know this.
Is this woman out of her mind or just that ignorant
Both. Let the moron protect herself. It is so sad to watch the mayor destroy this once promising city with her divisive, rayciss bs.