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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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She says this as if her own comments aren’t divisive. Can’t have citizens with their own opinions in this state.
Senator Looney Tunes has found the perfect home. Illinois voters will keep this nut in office for as long as she desires.
I keep wondering why all of a sudden Tammy Duckworth is everywhere. She has been a Senator for 4 years, and a US Rep before that. Nobody paid much attention to her before. Now I see her in the news almost every day???
She is pissed off that she didn’t get the VP bid so is saying unhinged left wing talking points to remain relevant.
Ironically, her incendiary public comments show that she is just as extreme in the other direction.
She is the extremist.
Psycho bable
So as long as they receive their information from Twitter and Facebook that’s ok. But if it’s a conservative source then they could be a domestic terrorist, got it.
She is a disgrace to the constituents of Illinois and her conduct as an elected official is becoming more and more alarming. Off the top of my head, first it was her mention that George Washington statues should come down last summer, then it was recently her nakedly racist position that she would not vote to confirm cabinet officials who weren’t of Asian decent, and now she is suggesting domestic surveillance of military service members. This woman should be censured.