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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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In other words, Dick Durbin dismisses qualifications, experience, and neutrality and opts for some twisted notion that the Supreme Court should be based on skin color, gender, and ethnicity. All accidents of birth and nothing more.
So much for meritocracy and having the best individual in the right position. No, D.I.E. reigns supreme in this man’s world.
When will Illinois voters dump this sad excuse for a legislator (along with his sidekick, Ms. Duckworth)?