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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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Kudos to the Mexican gangs keeping the riff Raff out of their neighborhoods.
The gangs finally held up their end of ‘protection’ money contracts they force every local business owner into.
Assertion: Rep. Ford is complaining that the police had difficulties stopping looters from burning down their own neighborhoods.
Fact check: police had difficulties stopping looters in ALL neighborhoods.
Result: Twisting of facts to meet narrative.
There was looting in majority white Wicker Park too black State Rep LaShawn Ford.
From this video the looters were black.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIOwreHwCiw
Blacks targeting white neighborhoods but black Mayor Lightfoot is not volunteering to rebuild those businesses?
Racism?
It really gets old.
https://statisticalatlas.com/neighborhood/Illinois/Chicago/Wicker-Park/Race-and-Ethnicity
Ask the average HS student what the significance of 1968 was in American history and you’ll see why it repeats itself…