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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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Dems love putting a smiley face in anything adverse, especially the criminals so near and dear to their hearts.
This state is a laughing stock! So police reports (“official police records”) can no longer refer to people who break the law as criminals or offenders? What about the term “suspect”? Is that prohibited also? What about computerized reports that have categories that are labelled “offender information” or other similar documents? Reprogram the entire system? At whose expense? And this is not even addressing these people as to who/what they are…criminals and offenders! If I was still an active Chief of Police I wouldn’t comply! If a report needed to be released to the public I would simply redact the… Read more »
State Sen. Robert Peters, D-Chicago (did you expect an ‘R”?), sponsor of this bill:
“ARI is performance incentive funding. It’s generally cost-effective and is a form of justice reinvestment. This is good public safety policy….”
One could ask. “Where??”
Disregard the evidence provided by your eyes and ears, Chumbolones. They’re making a difference. Not a positive one for the law abiding citizens, but a boon for career criminals. Not to worry, the political animals will be firmly ensconced in their Naples, Florida homes with a big fat pension courtesy of the few taxpayers who remain stuck in Illinois.
Just like they changed the name of child abusers : Minor Attracted Persons,
or MAPS ,call them out for what they are and stop feeling sorry for the CRIMINALS!!
Renaming doesn’t change mental illness