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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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Who is Lightfoot kidding when she says Chicago is going to recruit more qualified and diverse police applicants. What reasonably intelligent, ambitious person, black or white, male or female, isn’t going to see better opportunities anywhere but in police work.
Wally, read between the lines. She wants more recruits in her image: an armed force of social justice workers more concerned with punishing people like you. Kind of like the enforcers during Mao’s cultural revolution. She’s not hiring them for police work because like you pointed out, few people are interest in that. She has no interest in actually arresting criminals! That’s been obvious for years now. That’s why she is overworking the police, tying their hands behind their back, and pushing out all white men and women. This is not hyperbole we all see. She tells us she is… Read more »
here is an idea of who she wants
All is okay. The liberal agenda out there is to eliminate police and replace them with social workers, job coaches, therapists, community activists etc. So therefore, no problem.