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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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President Trump has tried to minimize the opioid crisis that ravaged much of unemployed America. Obama and Democrats ignored it.
>Obama and Democrats furthered it along with the ACA
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That number is too low for Jabba
Pritzker and his lot do not think about the consequences of their actions.
They go full steam ahead doing only what they want to do for themselves and forget the every man.