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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 police would be wise to call in with the Blue Flu throughout the convention. Burn baby burn. Send a message to the police hating Democrat Party.
No violence will occur. It will be newspoke into “ large gatherings “ or “ peaceful protests “. The violent people there that aren’t really protesting anything but are exercising an opportunity to “ do how they do “ will be tabbed as “underserved individuals with a lack of opportunities in their neighborhoods “. Don’t demonize them,”says mayor Raggedy, “ they just funnin!”.
DON’T THE GANGS NOW OUT NUMBER THE POLICE 22 TO 1 ?? NEED TO CALL IN HELP OR GIVE POLICE FREE REIN TO DO THEIR JOB!!!
The police are having a difficult time now with violence. They are not the ones tolerating it now, it’s the state’s attorney who is tolerating the violence in Cook County.
You misspelled encouraging re the SA.