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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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Stabbing the Americans that Americans won’t stab…..
Don’t send him back. Put him in with the hard cores. Turn him into a Venezuelan pin cushion. Then send him back
I thought Foxx was gone. WTH?!
Ridiculous. This criminal STABBED someone! Do the courts see so much of this crap that they have been climatized to the violence? This jackass should be put on a plane and released into the atmosphere over the pacific. The world would be a better place.
It’s not gonna get better, this state protects criminals. Get your CCL, make sure YOU have a ccl insurance policy, and practice. Do not be a victim. God knows you will be guilty until proven innocent in this state, if you ever have to defend yourself
32 days for multiple felonies and stabbing someone. Either deport him if possible or give him the 10 years in the cooler he deserves.
One of Emperor (that’s bigger than King I think) Pritzker’s people.
Yeah, an “illinois resident.”
Show me an easier job than Cook County prosecutor.