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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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These people keep blaming the immigration system and that it needs more money to make it work better. All that means, is more money for more agents and judges to process people quicker. It doesn’t address security, back ground checks, deportation…nothing. Just processing faster. No one in the media ever calls them on this to clarify what they mean by a “broken immigration system”. Close the damn boarder. Build the F-ing wall. Protect the people of this country. Then worry about the immigration process. This is going to go down in history as the most reckless, destructive, costly policy in… Read more »
Don’t even need a wall, just some well places artillery.
They only need to flip a couple of purple states blue and BAM, Democrats believe they’ll have control of the federal government for generations. That’s why they let them in. Globalists are all for it too – moving cheap labor to existing capital infrastructure without the corporations paying a dime to bring in the cheap labor. They pay for their own travel! We are no longer the United States of America but the Free Economic Zone of America.
Joe can easily fix this. CLOSE THE BORDER! Sorry JB, no money for anything but a wall. A big wall and officers to monitor it. You’re welcome.