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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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She’s just following orders to make some noise she and Durbin are nothing children’s noise makers.
She’s a Dem team player – forget the constituents, just support the party’s talking points.
Hope you’re political history … soon. Bah!
I can only say that she is as stupid as an empty fuel tank.
Perhaps the refineries in Illinois should close down then taking their well paid jobs and taxes with them
Tammy Duckworth is as useful as tits on a bull. Actually she is less useful than that.
Tammy Duckworth is what happens when you disregard ability, intelligence, experience, and education — and replace it with race/gender quotas and identity-politics box-checking. You get virtue signaling retards that are less than useless at their job.
Dimwit Duckworth opens her mouth to ensure we know she isn’t very bright. She understands nothing about the global oil market. Sit down and be quiet Tammy. Please.
Does she think we are this stupid? The spot price of oil falls a few dollars several weeks ago and refined gasoline is supposed to fall lockstep with the spot price? She may be so dumb she doesn’t understand economics. Or she’s really worried about her senate seat. Carol Mosley Braun lost her seat to a republican in a wave year…and Mark Kirk took Obama’s seat too…
Let’s hope Duckworth joins their ranks – she is SO out of her depth.