-- 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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Get used to it Oak Park. Going all in on progressive policies has consequences.
All the funerals I go to end up in a shootout. I wear my cowboy hat and 6 shooter at my side. The spurs are ruining the carpet in my car. The only safe person is the one in the casket.
The guy in the box was the target. They’re not too bright!
Hmm, and OP is such a progressive community too……
It is. When you remove the state’s criminal justice system, people take justice into their own hands. Very progressive value.