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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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Honoring Adam Teledo,? It’s sad he died so young. It’s sad he snuck out of his house to do what he shouldn’t do. But honor him? No. He need be held up as an example of bad choices. He wasn’t forced to do what he did. The gun wasn’t pointed to his head. His family and Ruben Roman need be held accountable for his death.
Let’s not turn justice into a mockery.
Pure and simple Adam Toledo was out gang banging , and there is no honor in that Mike
You’re too old school. In a neighborhood full of gangbangers, the death of one member is felt by all. Adam’s friends and family lament that Adam could have grown up to be a true Latin King warrior, maybe someday he could have ran the cartel’s Little Village network, or maybe he would have been brave, and killed multiple rival gangbangers at one time, and fought courageously in a gun battle, or maybe he could have fathered multiple children with multiple other gang hanger’on ladies, and laid claim to his latin king dynasty. Maybe he would have gone to jail and… Read more »