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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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.
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Meanwhile, IL state senator Sara Feigenholtz of the adjacent district, posted a picture of the Pope shooting a pregnant Statue of Liberty in the back of the head with a gun. You don’t think the left hasn’t had a hand in violence? And she wants gun bans? Yet, Highland Park has the strictest gun laws allowable. Let’s also not forget that as many people were shot in Chicago, so Lightfoot gets saved by the Highland Park tragedy.
Thanks Joe! And it’s amazing your main advisor Brian Meese actually revealed/admitted that the goal of your energy policy is to quickly transition our energy sector, because that’s what the New Liberal World Order wants. So gas prices will probably stay high & might even go much higher…but it’s for the common good.