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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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I thought young black men and women were behind the takeovers. Am I wrong?
Liquor, Pot, and sex is good enough reason for the kids to gather. Always has been before and likely to continue. Cops do nothing to stop it, so let the party rock and roll.
Correction — “teen takeover” sounds like a high school prank.
When people are being assaulted and robbed, it’s crime thug mob wilding,
Just the latest example of how the fake news fraud media tries to corrupt the English language, to hide the truth about their failed leftist agenda
I wouldn’t trust WBEZ for a second to have done an honest job surveying the teens behind this.
NPR and PBS — and all their affiliated fake news fraud outlets like WBEZ — should be defunded — they are nothing but propaganda outlets for far left Democrats and their moronic agenda.
Beahahahahaaaa, what a load of BS. We can’t go to the park, it’s full of people like us and we don’t feel safe.we need a safe place to beat and rob at willl. We just want to have fun.. it’s obviously climate change!
I see that the woman who wrote it “was part of the inaugural class of Northwestern University’s Social Justice News Nexus fellowship program.” The prosecution rests.