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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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If you’re the police where are your badges? We ain’t go no badges! We don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badges.
(Treasure of Sierra Madre)
Desperate measures for desperate people
If my research is correct, you can’t work for federal government or join military, but police is OK??? Are we the only country in the world that allows this?
The Democrats keep coming up with one bad idea after another.
Good Job Boys! Enjoy the coming chaos!
If you want protection in the Chitty hire the gangs, they are much better than the cops
That’s called the protection racket, not protection.