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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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She has a card with the word “race” in it. “it’s a shame that us — us” … as she’s waving the card.
She will have plenty of time to fight in prison.
Which is where she belongs
Isn’t it getting tiring to constantly hear about the never ending so called injustices suffered by black and brown communities? POC have been given so many chances, so many opportunities, so much money, so many advantages to move forward in society and have usually failed miserably. Y’all can’t figure out making it on your own y’all. Y’all, y’all, y’all.
But she is the only one that is mayor of Dolton
Exactly, you can pour all the money into society, but if people do not want to change and become part of society and become somebody and contribute nothing will ever ever change, blame the government for all of the free handouts and stuff, it’s just plain sickening already.