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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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A while back, he was boasting about the revenue from the weed sales.
It won’t be long before he starts pimping those Ho’s!
I’m surprised with all the illegals he’s welcomed that there hasn’t been a big push to legalize prostitution.
Get blown it the Windy City!
Kennedy Bartley $192k per year. Who knows how many more overpaid functionaries are hidden in city govt.
Payroll database. Easier to download and open in Excel but you can browse online too. Every Chicagoan should look at it to see what you are paying for. https://data.cityofchicago.org/Administration-Finance/Current-Employee-Names-Salaries-and-Position-Title/xzkq-xp2w/about_data
$192K per year for a 29-year-old, and BJ wants to raise PTs? Sounds about right for Chicago or Illinois.
No need to hate on youth just because they are successful. Work harder and pull yourself up by your bootstraps and you too can be successful. Spend less time worrying about others and focus on your own economic standing.
CTU members are parasitic scum who will live their golden years in poverty. I’ll happily step over their begging carcasses in the gutter and maybe just maybe hand them some dog food treats.
We are the ones getting paid what we deserve so we will never be in the gutter unless it’s to help out the non union scabs like you. We don’t beg. We demand our fair wages unlike the scabs that settle for crumbs. We are getting ready for another raise. You get ready to pay it.
The scabs pay your wages out of taxes imposed by your lackeys. Revolutions have not dealt kindly with boyars and imposters with education degrees and third rate, vindictive minds. Read the coffee grounds and tremble as the bulldozer meets the swamp.
Hmm….I smell a gift. Perhaps Kennedy has other skills we’re not aware of.
LOL “Kennedy graduated from DePaul University with a Bachelor’s in Public Policy, an African and Black Diaspora studies minor, and a certificate in Geographic Information Systems.”
https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/sites/celebrating-chicago-diversity/home/mayor-s-office-of-community-engagement/meet-the-team.html
His education and background has served him well. Doubt most of the people on this site have ever been close to his success.
She’s quite handsome too!
To paraphrase Austin Powers, that’s not a man baby!
Your comment to me doesn’t apply. I’m retired and in good shape financially. Also, I don’t “hate on youth”; I hate taxpayer abuse.
Paraphrasing a line from the movie Kill Bill, it’s not revenue he lacks, just an unwillingness to reduce bloat, patronage, to make budget cuts, a sense of fiscal responsibility, competent advisors, intelligence, a sense of rational reality, the ability to see issues without inserting race, and a willingness to stand up to CTU. Have I missed anything?
Yeah, his wife and 3 kids!