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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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Watch the movie Judge Dredd. Its an accurate prediction of what our cities and country will look like in a few years.
All except you know who Raoul
A lot of people are going to die as a result of this law. This law only makes sense for non-violent offences. Letting violent felons back on the street, right after catching them doing violent acts, is not a good idea.
The goal of the law is to allow violent felons back on the street! The politicians know and want people to die.
This was one of the Pillars of the Black Caucus.
The goal is destruction by neutering the criminal justice system, defunding & demoralizing the police.
They call it ‘reform’. But non-progressives call destruction any reform that destroys a perfectly functioning system developed over hundreds of years for the sole purpose of furthering progressive/communist values.
Debtsor its real name is MAXRISM plain and simple