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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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Hmmmm……Does this mean we can throw rocks at him and it’s all good? If his home is showered with rocks does one assume he processed by the devil? Apply their idiot ideas to the author is fair? Giddy up let’s go throw rocks at the dope, sounds like grade school mischief!
Try throwing a stone at a moving car and see how the driver reacts. Hint: It ain’t safely.
One of the article commenters provided this lengthy but laser-focused takedown of this nitwit alderman ___________________________ You know, I’ve commented a number of times before on Reid’s TIRING, time-wasting, proposals. I hesitate to explore possible roots [one in particular] that may have shaped his psyche; or what has caused his mind to develop as it has. There are a couple of answers that can be culled from previous posters: 1.) Self-conscious, because of a poor education, thus, 2.) attempting to compensate by APPEARING to offer something meaningful. 3.) Grandstanding I’m wondering about another–a 4th–possible answer: The current, BLEEDING-HEART liberal atmosphere… Read more »
Thanks for your two cents- worth a lot more than that!
The comment you copied from the website is 100% correct. Supporting BLM is no different than a hundred years ago lamenting the White Man’s Burden. Same people, same political party, same nonsense.
Bringing Islamic customs into the US.
Constant mask wearing for 2+ years must have cut off the oxygen to his brain.
Wow. At this point, the only thing that the outnumbered good people of Illinois can hope for is that Karma does her job, hopefully in spectacular fashion.
Apparently, being a sub-literate imbecile is the bar for becoming an Evanston alderman