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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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Good to see my congressman the Rev. Bobby Rush is on the case! His gerrymandered district runs from Chicago’s Eastside to out west toward Joliet. Yet, he is rarely seen west of Cottage Grove Ave.
But somehow this country elected a leader by mail in voting.
Why are people so outraged ?
This is what “diversity” does to businesses and government organizations.
But wait, things will become much worse in the coming days.