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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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.
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Businesses will hire young people who are capable, intelligent, and have a work ethic.
Exactly. Considering CPS record in educating students, what will these youths be qualified to do? Just menial tasks
If Chicago schools offered a course in gunsmithing they would have lots of students who are experts in converting Glock pistols into fully automatic weapons.
No – they are qualified for doing drugs robbing carjacking raping all of which you don’t get a W2.