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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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My neighbor, a middle aged single lady with three cats, put up a hate has a home here sign after I put up my Bailey sign. We haven’t talked since. Used to get along just fine. Now as part of the culling of terrible, awful liberals in my life, I’ve kicked her out of my world too. Guess i’ll have to drive to Jewels if I need a cup of sugar in the future..lol
There. See? Good news happens sometimes.