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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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But they are all “Socialist Regimes” INCLUDING THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION!!!
What’s a Commie to do?
On the one hand, we need police to keep us safe from the criminal element that arises when there is anarchy. On the other hand, these are the same cops, that when the comes, will put their knees on our collective necks to enforce the mandates of the social justice warriors. We are already starting to see it. Police are prevented from catching actual criminals and protected classes run rampant, but the regime is more interested in punishing dissenters and those who challenge their woke orthodoxy. It’s happening around the world as police are beating peaceful anti-lockdown protesters in Germany,… Read more »
Most appreciate and back the blue – but only if they follow laws and the constitution. I agree, what is happening in some other Countries is unsettling. Same thing last summer with the stand down orders given when buildings were burning and there was chaos from the peaceful protestors. Hopefully we have enough good ones left.
The cops will mostly do what their bosses tell them to do. And if they won’t, they’ll be replaced with social justice warrior brown shirts. What else do you think the social workers replacing police officers will become?