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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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The south and west side ghetto rats have destroyed all the open hotels in the south loop. Best western grant park, Congress plaza, and others. Calls to the alderman king about open drug dealing, harassing people on the street, illegal parking, public drinking and smoking all gone unaddressed by the great enabler king.
It wasn’t too long ago, in my lifetime, that the South Loop not too far south of the CBOE was pretty rough. It wasn’t skid row but it wasn’t great. The area is just returning to its former glory.
Why send the cops? Send the SWAT team. Social Workers And Therapists. Less chance for an ugly confrontation to occur. Will someone please tell me what criminal code was violated.
What I don’t understand is why the police do ANYTHING with this peaceful assembly?! What they (the police) are doing is actually against the Constitution. The Constitution each and every officer took an oath to uphold. I think some officers forget this. The Oath: 5 U.S. Code § 3331.An individual, except the President, elected or appointed to an office of honor or profit in the civil service or uniformed services, shall take the following oath: “I, — , do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that… Read more »
Another stupid comment by a blm boy.