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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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So this is it in a nutshell.
I am black and own a company.
Because I am black, you should have given my company more business.
You didn’t, so you are now being sued.
Got it, this makes total sense!
If you don’t like the way McDonalds does business, don’t go there. This guy is an opportunist and nothing more.
The new Jesse
Weird. All I see are illiterate black employees at every McDonald’s I frequent. What more do they have to give back to illiterates?
there is no such thing as systemic racism. if there was, the trial bar would have a field day in court. I am glad he filed this as stupid as it is.
Extortion, formerly known as “blackmail”, works.