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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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Sara Ellis needs to find a boyfriend. Then again, that wouldn’t work because she always says NO!
I hope some kids hit him with snowball covered rocks. Better yet. A big gulp full of rocks. See what he thinks
IL judges are bought and paid for by the Democrats.
Judge Ellis wants to be the Federal version of COPA hamstringing the CPD
Where in the heck are the hand tasers, tase EVERYONE that touches a federal agent and put them in zip ties. Even if not charged I bet they will think VERY hard about touching an agent again.