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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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Looks like Slaughter has the munchies after all the pot he’s ingested. Pity JB the Hutt ate all the Doritos.
Stop electing stupid people, Illinois!
IT APPEARS THAT IS ALL THEY HAVE!!!
Unless they are white then they get a life sentence according to these DEI woke psycho morons
Justin Slaughter = ‘Mad Max’…
Hes mad at is the mirror when he looks at it in the morning, reality is quite harsh for some people
Isn’t DEI just so wonderful? I wonder when people wont be afraid to call out reality in fear of being called a certain word by the leftist woke psycho mental patients
Why doesn’t Mr. Slaughter just repeal these laws?
Cant repeal laws when he probably cant even read
Drive around just about anywhere and you are risking your life. Speeding, disregarding stop signs and red lights, tailgating, drag racers, drunks all over. Stop enforcing traffic laws and it will be 10x worse. Only a democrat could think up something as stupid as this.
Yes, I heard a radio interviewee the other day describe ideas such as this: “going full libtard”. When someone proposes an utterly ridiculous law or idea, it’s “going full libtard”. It must be said very condescendingly too, imagine the tone when a liberal says “Trumpster”, you can immediately say, in that Tucker-esque fashion “at least we’re not going full libtard”
Laws be racissss though
We saw what you did there…
Here’s the infamous Motor Vehicle Death Rate by Race (per capita) showing the massive increase in death rate for black people after the 2020 racial reckoning and de-policing movement.
Rep. Slaughter, do you believe that banning police from enforcing traffic laws will lead to more, or less, Black traffic deaths?
Facts don’t matter, it’s all about how Mr. Slaughter feels.
Sums up DEI perfectly. Mr Slaughter should get diversity hire of the century award
I would disagree. Mr. Slaughter is not a diversity hire. He’s actually a successful politician who won all of his elections. Winning elections is not easy. Many try and few succeed. He’s merely giving his constituents what they want. I bet this law is quite popular among his constituents.
Isn’t DEI just so wonderful?