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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 see the shootings have significantly diminished with the arrival of the Chicago Safety Patrol! Lori? Porky?TimKimnToni? Any comments? Yea I know, it’s the weekend.
If Lightfoot thins that RINO bff of Lori Beverly democrat us attorney John lausch will do anything it won’t happen. Lausch had a year he did nothing. This is all theater.
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To paraphrase her statement in the style of President Teddy Roosevelt, she talks with a big mouth and carries a small toothpick. She does nothing but yak yak yak about how tough she is, but the streets are increasingly over run with emboldened murderers cutting down the innocent at an ever acellerating rate. Those bad actors know the unholy trinity of Tim, Kim and LL will do nothing to stop them.
Ha, Haha, Hahahahahahahahahaha! That’s the funniest thing I’ve heard in a long time
Oh boy, I bet those gang banging gun runners are shaking in their Jordan’s! Lori Lightweight is mad as heck, and she’s gonna round up those bad boys up and send em packing! What a joke she is. They’ll do whatever they please just like they have been. Murders and shootings are going up up up.