-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
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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US produced weapons are killing Palestinian women and children.
Yep and US produced weapons killed the Nazi Germans and Imperial Japanese and the world was better off for it.
Hamas and the Palestinians are one and the same.
Genocide Joe and Killer Kamala!
O boy, the greatest spectacle in 100 years is
Almost upon us. Beer in the cooler check,
Plenty of popcorn check, Kleenex to wipe eyes from laughing hard check, waiting for the parade of clowns double check!
“We can change the world, rearrange the world..”
It appears that some are interpreting this injunction in the worst possible light. Saw several businesses in the loop that have boarded up their windows so as to avoid their merchandise being rearranged. From the river to the lake, merchandise will be free.
Ha!!!! Funniest comment of the week!!!
Correction;
From the river to the lake
Merchandise is there
For the take