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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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Like him or not President Trump bought us 4 years from Hillary and her mob.
That’s about as sensible as saying dying from COVID-19 kept you from dying of a heart attack. In short, neither was a good option.
Did you denouce BLM and Antifa? Or you you still think those are just IDEAS?
Idea’s didn’t burn down a half a billion dollars worth of Minneapolis you idiots.
Say, why don’t you quit posturing and support President Trump?
I think they mean they to say they are the GOP wing of the Democrat Party
It was Antifa who were dressed as patriots.
Big mistake. Never condemn the patriots of your own party.
I’m so close to leaving the GOP and I’ve been a conservative since I first formed my own political opinions around age 9 or 10.
You are not alone, same here. It’s disgusting what is happening.
Agreed. Most are just RINO’s like that Rodney Davis. Time to boot all Dem’s I mean so called Republican’s and just let the OUT OF THE closet Dem’s run the show.
These guys hiding in their broom closets are not republicans they are actually Dem-Lite