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The official portraits are leaving Washington, D.C., for the first time and coming to Chicago for the first stop in a nationwide tour.
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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George Washington and our founding fathers are looking down upon us shaking their heads.
Yep, they’ve lost their frickin’ minds they are saying.
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These are portraits of the vines at Wrigley Field and an ugly dress. You cant even see the people. They can’t possibly be official portraits.
Unrealistic. I can’t even see the strings.
Just missing the hot dogs from Chicago. . .
Hideous. 350 years from now, these portraits will look even more ridiculous than they do today.