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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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Yet tourists still come . Are they thrillists or have a death wish ?
Crime is down! Safest city in America!
Tell that to the victims of major thefts on Michigan Ave
Tell that to the family of the man killed by the burglars
Tell that to,the woman’s family stabbed to death on a CTA platform
Tell that to the 200 plus homicide victims
Tell that to the almost 1200 people shot
My guess is that the criminals were graduates of the CPS and not illegal immigrants.
Will the new Cook County State’s Attorney charge all of the perpetrators with Felony Murder?
Good idea.
The WGN news has a story about the victim. He was an expectant father driving to work his last shift before his girlfriend began an induced labor.
It looks as if the CCSA is going to charge all of the perps with murder.
Thank you very much Ms. O’Neill Burke!
Keep up the good work!!