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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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Ouch! That’s gotta hurt. But, then again, who really listens to this rambling, way past expiration date has been in his desperate attempts to stay relevant anyway? At this point Jackson Sr. is kept around for comic relief.
Wasn’t it Jackson and his posse who put Foxx in office? Rotten SOB!
It’s because she isn’t Napoleon Harris III. But we’ll take it.