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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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I’m all for giving a young offender a second chance. I strongly disagree with the 14th or more chances. No second chance for serious crime resulting in injury or death. The message to be sent is that you commit a felony and you go to prison for years, many, many years. If you are 18 and are going away for 20 or 30 yrs, surprise. Those around you, friends, fellow criminals, gangsters may, just may change their ways but if they don’t and are treated the same way with decades in prison hundreds of crimes will be stopped, the street… Read more »
I don’t know what Alexi is puffing on, but more than one person interrupting a catalytic converter theft or carjacking has been threatened with guns, and some have been fired upon. He’s just another Dem trying to churn BS into buttermilk.
Vote him out. By his actions and inactions he promoting voter fraud.
Alexi is just another insufferable tool who lies in order to remain a perpetual candidate for higher office.
A different picture regarding crime statistics is over at the Second City Cop’s blog that say that many crimes are simply not being reported for various reasons including unanswered telephone calls at the dispatchers. Of course what would they know? After all they are just Chicago cops.
He has been smoking the legal “Weed”.