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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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SJW Evans was told he couldn’t handle this from jump, but the arrogant, criminal enabler shrugged that off with his typical Dem hubris. He knows what’s good for you. You don’t.
“In April, AFTER EVANS’ OFFICE ASSUMED RESPONSIBILITY for the countywide electronic monitoring program …” Emphasis added. The 2 separate monitoring programs in existence – one, a comparatively small program, barely administered by the Circuit Court under Evans, and the other much larger and administered by Cook County Sheriff – were both failures. Evans is technically an employee of the State. His salary is paid out of State funds. However, in order to become a judge and stay one, he must be elected and retained by the electorate of Cook County. And NOBODY gets on the ballot as a Dem in… Read more »
Someone needs to be held accountable…however that looks.
Wouldn’t you think the ankle unit would have a GPS that could show where the breaker of the rules is at all times. This would ensure a speedy arrest of the rule breaker and hopefully incarceration for original
crime along with the new.
Wouldn’t you think the ankle unit would have a GPS that would show where the breaker of the rules is at all times. This would ensure a speedy arrest of the rule breaker and hopefully incarceration for original
crime along with the new.