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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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“…with President Ali Malekzadeh even being the host of the campus “And Justice For All Podcast”…”
Think we’ll see this soy boy on Joe Rogan anytime soon, lol…???
I’m encouraged and heartened that there is still some sanity left in America.
Down with honest elections!
More slick double talk from someone that throws out divisive language and then tries to walk it back with a half- hearted, obviously insincere mea culpa , the damage having been done.