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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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Such progress we’ve made under liberal thought-police, we’ve gone from “melting-pot America” to single-issue race-baiting bias-enforcement of SJW “equity”. Whatever happened to “qualified candidate, able to get bipartisan support”? Oops, Tammy herself wouldn’t meet that criteria, because she’s a single-issue race-bias candidate herself.
I guess it is official– Illinois now has an anti-white U.S. senator. And the most amazing thing is that she is not afraid to say it publicly.
Duckworthless announces she’s a racist who judges people only by their skin color!
This is unbelievable. Identity politics at its worst. Who votes for this person?
The same people that vote for Pritzker.
Let’s play the alphabet game.
A, B, C, what comes next?
There’s your answer.