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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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“We could try to fix this by having people line up outside in the rain and cold to get their appointments.”
Sorry Fred but that is sheer idiocy.
The U.S. Mail is the only reliable way to go…
The black folks are getting vaccinated for lead poisoning. It ain’t working, 45 dead, 157 shot. Woo Hoo!
Blm must be listened to. They now control the city and country.
BLM is just a sub-group of the progressive left. The progressive left is in control.
Chicago specifically designs its vaccine distribution to be ‘equitable’ and it STILL messes it up. Incompetence. They can’t even get social equity correct.
Once they get social equity correct the goalposts will be moved.
They’ll never get it correct. They’re incompetent goofs. But they will cause a lot of damage along the way, unfortunately. Damage that only they claim the ability to fix.