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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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According to Kim Foxx, the three thugs shooting the guy on the ground dead are “mutual combatants”. Therefore, there is no crime. Nobody will be charged with anything. Chicago does not have a gun problem.
Video or not, if the usual suspects are involved, nobody is getting charged.
Do they realize that their actions are Self Inflicted Genocide?
Folks, nothing good happens after midnight. I suggest that gang bangers could increase their life expectancy by hitting the sack by 11 pm on Saturday nights.