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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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With all that is going on–it is the mask penalty that will get people.
I hope he knows what is going on in Illinois and other parts of the country.
So what’s wrong with this, you mean to tell me that store clerks are going to enforce the mask proclamation not law though. Somebody is going to get seriously hurt or killed god forbid by this law. Pritzker and Springfield were are your brains, if I were a store clerk go to hell don’t we’re a mask let law enforcement handle it. Hey better idea how about Dr. Ezike and chuckles the clown go to your local store and enforce it. Not gonna last to long are ya chuckles and Eike have IDPH people go out and do your dirty… Read more »
They’re planning ahead, people…