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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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This is all on Governor Carnival Barker. He put the laws on the books protecting serial lawbreakers. He, and his entire sick twisted family, should be banished to live in the worst place imaginable. California.
He doesn’t care. You could show him this story, and he’d say OK, and then never, ever think about it again.
You mean he wouldn’t even bother to call me xenophobic or racist while he jams another triple cheeseburger into his pie hole? Bummer.
I take it back, he’d probably do that!
Well business owners you need to self identify as a M13 gang banging illegal alien and do the job that the CPD won’t (more precisely aren’t) allowed to do!
I’m including you to Kimmy.
Mayor BJ has a taxpayer-provided 150-man army of CPS bodyguards, effectively stripping Chicagoans of useful purpose of those 150 officers. Politicians Preckwinkle, Evans, Foxx, et al, have their own multi-person tax-payer provided security personnel, to chauffeur them, to guard their houses, and usually, to manage and oversee their household too. Pritzker likely has a combo of taxpayer-provided and private security, again a large group, flying here there and everywhere, frequently travelling outside Illinois to his 2nd homes in Wisconsin and Florida, always providing full-service household protective services too. Our politicians who promote pro-criminal offender policies, who mandate laws such as… Read more »