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Originally Posted by Via Chicago
Theres a thing called an obligation. Debts are an obligation, and whether you agree with it or not, its legally bound. You dont get to say "I choose not to honor this obligation because I disagree with it!" Try that with your own creditors and see how it works. What happens is your interest rates continue to climb and fewer and fewer people are willing to finance your little party, and then eventually they come in and they take that nice car and house away from you and you start your life over without said house and car or the ability to borrow money for a significant chunk of the rest of your life. You are carrying on your life not grounded in reality and I dont care what anyone says, more spending on Loop parks (and not even new parks, but rather an already existing park that the mayor is just sort of aesthetically "eh" about) is a piss poor use of limited resources. You are part of the problem, and you cant even step outside yourself to see it. Reality is you'll be long dead and the next generation (i.e. ME) will be the ones picking up the tab from your kegger. Just like youre blaming the prior generation...
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And..... here we go again..... trying to make the idiotic analogy of personal debt/spending being the same as the city’s pension obligation.....
Ok Via.... to use your analogy... it’d be like me having to buy a house.... but I have absolutely no say in the price of the house, regardless of the current housing market. Nor do I have any say on what the financing rate will be or what my monthly payments are. And what’s more, all those decisions are made by the bank and realtor, who promise to keep giving each other business if they agree to gouge the crap outta me....
The vast majority of city residents had absolutely no say in how all those pensions were written, but are forced to shoulder the burden. We absolutely have a right to be resentful when they are completely out of line and don’t reflect reality.