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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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Greg Richmond should be fired! You sir are slimy!
Yet they placed a principal in an Evergreen Park elementary school on administrative leave for saying masks are optional at his school. The timing is good. I was considering an offering for the annual Catholic Appeal. After I see how the cardinal aligns, I will defer again this year. They believe in personal religious freedom, but not other personal freedoms. Didn’t the CDC say cloth masks don’t work?
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The only reason this worthless cardinal dropped the mandate is because too many wealthy parents were threatening to pull their kids out.
The shelves are overflowing with unsold indulgence’s.