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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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Just on the local news, drug dealers, gang bangers, convicted felons are already lining up to register their illegally possessed rifles and pistols so they don’t get in trouble with the law.
Resist!
Gun issue may erode Democrat votes in suburbs — especially as Democrats grab guns from law abiding citizens while coddling/catering to crime-thugs
Won’t matter, Democrats still will have the majority of votes in the fraudulent, electronic voting machines and drop boxes.