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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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Durbin goes wherever the mob is going. He’s the worst kind of hypocritical, sanctimonious windbag ever! And a POS too!
It is difficult to think of any US senator in history who has been less effective than dick Durbin. It’s one thing to accomplish virtually nothing in a long career, but to actually inflict such significant damage is something else again. Way to go dick!