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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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.
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The description above of the progressive utopia JB hopes to achieve is awfully ambitious and unlikely to happen, because it seems that few want to live here.
LIKE I SAID BEFORE CALIFORNIA WOULD BE PERFECT FOR HIM AND HIS FAMILY WITH HIS MIND SET…………AND HE COULD AFFORD TO LIVE THERE…….NEWSOM AND HIM WOULD GET ALONG GREAT…….LAWS FOR THEE BUT NOT FOR ME
Again, the People’s Republic of Socialist Workers Union leader tries to come off as an “ Everyman “ , and tries to keep a straight face while lying through it.