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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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How about simply “B. O. Drive”?
But if that doesn’t work, Barack Obama Drive would dovetail nicely with Balbo Drive: the Twin Fascist Thoroughfares!
It was really bad enough that they renamed the world famous Lake Shore Drive requiring an additional name be uttered every time it is said, but to start renaming streets that have been part of the City’s history forever…just to please a few. What the hell are we doing here? There is nothing necessary about this change, nothing needed and adds nothing to the City.
Like Marks Comment – Put the Columbus Statue Back Please!
YOU’VE BEEN CONQUERED. That’s what happened.
Manifest Destiny.
We’ve got bigger problems than this b shit
“Honoring explorer Christopher Columbus has fallen sharply out of favor among many Americans” No one in my circle feels this way, wonder who these people are that feel this way.
Guess!
Better idea: Put the Columbus statue back.
Love the comments………just easier to move than fight this garbage…..red states seem to be doing OK
Typical racist move by another victimhood mentality disordered liberal. They want to rename everything for someone black and when possible make sure that they are doing so with something that was named after a white person. What they don’t realize as that as $chitcago’s demographics change as blacks are leaving and Hispanics are replacing them is that the Hispanics will start renaming all the black streets, schools etc after Hispanics. Historically, the blacks and Hispanics do not like each other, so don’t be fooled by their recent attempt to fool people that “people of color” are allies. Don’t believe it?… Read more »
Columbus was an explorer and attempted to
Find a new world. I am sick of this woke crap.
Stop trying to destroy past history. No one
From Africa jumped into a canoe and sailed
Across the Atlantic to find North America.
Let’s rename State Street or LaSalle the BHO Entreprise Avenue.
Ald. Robinson, did you hear Michelle and Barack Obama’s statement regarding what’s being done to their fellow Chicagoans by the invasion of illegals in this country? Me either!!