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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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Lack of cameras? I blame Putin. I57 is a direct road to The joint in Marion. Criminals visiting criminals.
The shooters themselves are to blame. Period. Welcome to our nanny-state, where no one is accountable for their actions, and always there’s an inanimate object that’s to blame.
Cameras haven’t solved the problem on Chicago expressways. There’s a few each week. No one ever gets arrested or charged. Another case of misdirected blame. Wake up people, and recognize that when individuals aren’t held accountable, there will be chaos.
Really? The lack of cameras? Get real!
Cameras won’t prevent these out-of-control idiots from shooting one another and innocent bystanders.
Anyone who believes the cameras have any preventative value probably own stock in the companies that provide them. They may aid in investigations, but if they’re in Cook County, why bother? Foxx will likely consider them ‘mutual combatants.’
Lack of cameras, not sociopath young adults produced by the community, that’s the cause of expressway shootings.
Problem solved!