-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
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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And it’s your own damn fault
Blacks killing blacks the Democrat playbook.
Chicago is the ultimate example in history of: You get the government you vote for.
Brooks is ok insofar as “revruns” go, but he could use a history lesson: Mayor Harold Washington declared CHI a sanctuary city in 1985.
How did making the city a sanctuary make gangbangers shoot each other?
The dead and wounded aside, they’re just underserved youths funnin’. Don’t demonize.
Wow! Are you for real? Is that really the best question you can come up with? Let me connect the dots for you. Instead of spending the money on illegal aliens, the city spends it on hiring more police to serve the high crime neighborhoods? How about the elected scum who run Crook County actually prosecute the criminals by hiring more SAs and the mental disordered liberal judges actually impose meaningful prison time sentences?