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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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No wonder she thinks Chicago is safe … she and her family are.
Armed car jackings 4x what they were in 2019 but Mayor Big Genitalia is scared of Trump supporters.
Why would the WOMEN with the biggest D-ICK in Chicago need all that back up
She/He has a brilliant career in you know what after trying to be a mayor, good luck lucky.
Well, she sure does make enemies so quickly and easily. Maybe the detail needs to be doubled. I suspect that she has only a very few true friends.
The large security detail simply reflects how universally detested she is!
I believe the mayor has it wrong, I believe Bruce Rauner, not djt, is responsible, right?
Also, Mr. Rauner, although out of office for like the past 20 years, is responsible for the current and past decades of rot and political malfeasance in Illinois, right?
20 years? 1, 2, 20??? Man counting is hard.
20 months in chicago feels like 20 years.
I thought it was blame Putin time.
Only for those without severe cases of TDS. So much blame to go around!