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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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During the DNC, Texas Governor Abbott should send a continuous stream of buses filled with criminal illegal aliens to the doorstep of the United Center. If they can get close enough amid the looting, burning and violence of the fiery but mostly peaceful protests.
“Republicans in Congress, meanwhile, have created an opportunity for Democrats to use the broader issue against the GOP, who scuttled a bipartisan immigration and border security proposal earlier this year at Trump’s behest.”
An “immigration and border security proposal” that would have accelerated and codified the influx of unvetted illegal aliens.
Racist democrat party doing what the racist democrat party always does, no surprise here
Clearly a democrat created problem.
If you create the problem, you own the problem.