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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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It’s hard to hear what Snelling is saying when he’s got Johnson’s Johnson in his mouth but it sounds like “I am the mayor’s beotch and I most certainly take my marching orders from him”
Better than you taking it up the a$$
Sounds like you and your little friend who like to downvote have experience with that. Too bad the neighborhoods in Chicago that will lose Shotspotter will continue to take it too thanks to mental disordered liberals like you who suffer from white guilt.