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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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I believe the new flag should be a simple white background with nothing printed on it. It should have a red band around the edges representing the oceans of red ink and unpaid bills of the state government. It would be appropriately emblematic of the states’ surrender to every leftist, unconstitutional, unworkable, discriminatory, anti business, insane idea that comes along.
“We have turned that around and returned Illinois to the great state it is …”
Huh?
I must have missed this turnaround – Chicago is swirling the bowl and Illinois is close on Chicago’s heels. What state does Sen. Turner reside in? Can’t be IL.
Alfred E. Neuman
“What Me Worry”
Just a big orange cone.
Gay pride rainbow with George Floyd & Trevon Martin with angel wings holding it as if they were the pot of gold. Pritzger standing in the center wearing his Golden Corral bib with his foot on the throat of a taxpayer with their pockets turned inside out. A sponsors logo in the bottom right hand corner from U Haul.
I suggest the intersection of the BLM banner, rainbow and the hammer and sickle added to the upper LH corner!