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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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Here’s what the troll said when Trump wanted to send federal agents to Chicago a year ago to deal with the violence:
“Our democracy is at stake, and I’ll be darned if I’m going to let anybody – even if their name is Mr. President – bring those kind of troops to our city and try to take on our residents,” Lightfoot told MSNBC on Monday night. “That’s not going to happen in Chicago. And I’m going to use every tool at my disposal to stop them.”
What’s changed? Orange man bad
Yet Springfield’s position is to make gun ownership more onerous for even law abiding gun owners.
It’s like they want gang bangers illegally owning guns to terrorize everyone.
They want to disarm as many law abiding citizens as possible as it’s just a matter of time before those roving bands of ghetto youth start getting shot and killed.