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.
Are any politicians required to take a mental evaluation? His vocabulary is quite limited. Metrics-science-mandate-task force-raise taxes. That’s about it.
Jabba is a snake oil salesman, and no one is buying. With him it is one outrageous claim after another. Either he is a lying scumbag or completely delusional. Neither one is a desirable attribute.
He should just spouts statistics about how likely Illinois will collide with Saturn. He’s just a clown! I knew a kid in HS, everything out of his mouth was BS. Just like Porky and Lori.