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.
“ A silent zone.” Why not, you’ve already silenced the voices that the unborn would have had were they allowed to be born. Remember when the AIDS crowd reminded us during the Reagan years that “ silence is compliance “?