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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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Please take a look at the absurdly gerrymandered map of Garcia’s 4th Congressional District. The map was drawn specifically to produce a Hispanic rep. named Chuy. The map boundaries purposely marginalize white voters living within it. It was by design.
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Illinois 4th Congressional District. Wikipedia
Yet all I hear about on the news is that Republicans gerrymander…
Lock this loser up! He is part of the problem in Chicago
This man pals around with the radical America bashing “Squad”. I remember the New Way Forward Act. That piece of crap legislation tells me this man does not represent American Citizens. That makes him a traitor. Its really just a plan for more handouts. What else is new?
Garcia is again giving free jobs and money in exchange for votes. They will not go to work. It’s like Loris constantly giving millions to fake jobs like violence interrupters and contact tracers. They were all no show jobs.
Unfilled jobs are at an ALL TIME high of 8.1 million unfilled jobs. Wages & inflation have nowhere to go but up. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/u-s-job-openings-soar-to-record-8-2-million-but-businesses-say-they-cant-find-enough-workers-to-hire-11620742194
Isn’t hiring based on skin color against federal law?
We can’t let technicalities get in the way of equity, now can we?
There’s ‘hiring’ signs everywhere i go. Yes they’re crappy jobs but restaurants & retail are desperate for workers. For how long can progressive dems get away with pretending we’re living in the 1930’s? and why does the enabler press keep helping to push this narrative?
The kids who need jobs will learn far more about realty working a job with a for profit employer than in a government make work give away.