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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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Racism is alive and well in Schamburg, Rosemont and now Elk Grove Village.
Blacks are not the only people subject to racism.
Nothing new here, this bonehead has nothing else to say…its always discrimination, equity and the rest of that BS that is distracting this country from the real problems. Hell, he’s from Chicago…of course its discrimination. The major problem is corruption at the highest levels of this government and this country is being invaded and for the life of me…there are people who do not see it happening…look at the numbers of people crossing into our country unchecked. It is criminal. No one that can stop it…will. This president and people like Raoul here have done more damage to this country… Read more »
And sadly those who have caused this disaster, democrats, don’t care.
Kwame will be remembered by the history books as a feckless patsy doing the bidding of his IL Democrat Party masters.
Fighting strawmen, just like his mentor and hero, Barack Obama.
So all these years of work have yielded nothing? If you are that ineffective maybe you need to get a job somewhere else.
Once again, it’s always YT’s fault.
You intentionally assault us with the fake Marxist DIE agenda, we intentionally assault back with truth and facts. Get used to it, the truth will set you free.
None of these clowns would be in the positions they have except for Affirmative Action. They, along with thousands of other unqualified individuals, have high ranked jobs and positions yet still throw the Race Card at every opportunity.
Says the affirmative action AG of IL.
What a toolbag, anything to hide behind the fact that DEI is a complete and utter failure and will continue to be