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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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I will like to sit back and enjoy this sh.. show.
Let’s start a contest to name the new stores.
Winner gets a free cart full of food, wait, it’s always free at the “ five fingers food store”.
How about “ low price foods”, can’t get any
Lower than take it.
Alfree
Steal and Go
Can’t wait for comrade Johnson to open his socialist, state run food stores that will be picked clean within days of opening. It’s okay though, the taxpayers will restock them and the cycle will continue unabated.
MAYBE THEY COULD CURB CRIME????????????????????????????????