-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
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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The tax base keeps running for the exits. How do we stop them from choosing saner grounds on which to set up camp?
Maximum baby killing. And for the ones who make it out of the womb and hospital alive, ensuring protections for the predators who groom them into molestation and mutilation.
Are there any adults left in Chicago government? Illinois government?
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Chicagoans are leaving the city in droves due to crime and the high cost of living but sure, pass a meaningless abortion ordinance. No doubt businesses and new residents will now flock to the city because a legal medical procedure is now, what, even more legal?
For a bankrupt crime infested toilet of a city, Democrats think the biggest problems are not enough dead babies, not enough kids being groomed and molested
They’re ideologically driven by perverted destructive values and hate for deplorables like you.