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.
The people leading this fight are the worst people of Manteno. These people have a moral compass that led to multiple children with multiple fathers, extensive drug use, children in prison, drop-outs, legal issues, etc. The fact that these are the people who are leading this protest makes it a joke. Let the jobs come in. If you are worried about China, stop shopping at Walmart.