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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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Voting should be on a weekend when most people are not working or commuting to and from work and then have to stand in line or even take a few hours off from work to vote. This would be more convenient for many and turnout should be larger.
Paper ballots only unless you are handicapped by verification and all ballots must arrive by the close of voting day. Make sure to mail at least a few days earlier and the post office should consider the ballots as priority mail or special delivery.
Doesn’t matter if it’s on a Sunday, if people don’t have more choice/choices in a heavily Gerrymandered state what do you think people are going to do, we know the answer.
us seniors showed up, it was 100% seniors (me) when I went to vote….we’re so sick of the progressive crap.
So the senior win only when no one else shows up. Democracy!
Yup, it’s pathetic how few people vote, the general public are idiots and the machine counts on it. The two groups you can always count on showing up are 1.) seniors, and 2.) public sec workers and their spouses. The bigger story with BCH is ‘new machine’ progressives planned on a low voter turnout to try a sneak BCH through in a primary, because that’s how they got similar tax referendums past in places like LA, and despite CTU spending $400gs in union dues and getting their army out to work the streets they took a face plant….I’m hoping Burke… Read more »