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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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Why doesn’t Round Boy put up his own 70 million dollars for these people who he cares so much about? Yes they are human being and yes they can go back to wherever it is they came from. We own them NOTHING!
“They’re human beings”, but babies inches away from being born aren’t. Hoookaaay.
They just want to kill the babies. There’s no rational argument to explain their positions.
U hit the nail on the head
Never expect rational thought from the lunatic Left. It is all driven by “feelings”.
They are the New Chicago and the New Illinois.
JB: I am officially out of arguments. Now pass me the gravy.
They may be human beings… but they don’t belong here..!! Sick of things being cancelled for citizens to give to these invaders!!! GO HOME OR TO DELAWARE TO DADDY
They are illegal invaders and traspassers
More like bodies for the electoral college in the census.
yes,I see that investment on many corners as they exhibit their entrepemeurial skills panhandling with babies on their backs. Investments? Really fat boy? If you weren’t born with the elder pritzkers inheritance, you’d be on the streets with them
The supply of chocolate bars & roses have increased in the downtown area! They’re innovators!
Actually JB, the new arrivals should be seen as illegals, and deported back over the border.