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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 clown makes it very clear that any tax dollars are to go to non- whites. Whites are only useful as a source of revenue in the new “Chocolate City “ mayor Raggedy rules ( through the CTU and Taxwinkle).
Here are the ‘Rules’ Obama, Biden, Pritzker, Lighfoot, Johnson, and Leftist Democrats have mastered: The Five Rules of Propaganda 1. The rule of simplification – reducing all data to a simple confrontation between ‘Good and Bad’, ‘Friend and Foe’. 2. The rule of disfiguration – discrediting the opposition by crude smears and parodies. 3. The rule of transfusion – manipulating the consensus values of the target audience for one’s own ends. 4. The rule of unanimity – presenting one’s viewpoint as if it were unanimous opinion of all right-thinking people: draining the doubting individual into agreement by the appeal of… Read more »
They’ve been doing this since the Covid bucks started to flow. Trillions have been pissed away, and that doesn’t even begin to address all the fraudulent funds that flowed through PPP loans and unemployment theft. What do we, as a society, have to show for it? All that money hasn’t lifted anyone up, despite the social progressive claims. That’s the problem with liberals. They think they can somehow change the hard wiring of humans. Sorry folks, we all weren’t born equal. We don’t all have the same physical attributes, the same mental capacity, the same drive, determination and work ethic.… Read more »
Once upon a time tax dollars had to be spent on what they were appreciated for or returned to the Treasury. What happened?
GREED AND DEMOCRAT SOCIALISTS
Equitable transparent CTU/Brandon & crew already announced Ald Conway’s proposal to let alderman vote on how remaining ($400 mil?) COVID funds are spent DOA. Or, in otherwords the remaining $400 mil is CTU/Brandon’s equity hustle slush fund for him to reward his buddies….look for a $big chunk$ of COVID bucks to go to CTU/Stacey’s “sustainable schools”