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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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Its insulting to have to vote against some policy that is clearly illegal and morally perverted.
Citizens of Illinois need to be able to vote to rescind Illinois sanctuary status as well.
Another nobody without his father’s name
Jonathan actually is not such a bad guy. Does what he has to do to cater to his base, but comes out on the right side of things more than most Dems do, and this is a good example. It really is a perfect topic for a citywide referendum
Blacks in general are not happy with the illegal/Venezuelan take over. Let’s just say that the Venezuelans don’t feel solidarity with blacks as BIPOC or POC in the intersectional hierarchy. In fact, our hispanic migrants feel superior in a majorly racist way to the darker skinned natives and treat them accordingly. It’s a major clash of cultures going on right now between these two communities that will – sooner rather than later – boil over into extreme street violence. The illegals are also taking valuable resources away from the black community. In fact, I was talking to a native born… Read more »
You are right on. This is a smart thing for him to do for his overwhelmingly black district. His constituents have been hurt as badly as anyone by the illegal immigration
They really, really don’t like the illegal immigrants. In my world, the illegals are on many levels, are an abstraction, they exist, but the next town over, and maybe I see them on the road, or begging in front of the local Jewels. They’re not moving in my neighborhood. But to the black community, they are competing with them for housing, housing vouchers, food, schools, gang turf, drugs, corners, used cars, availability of items at the grocery story, low income jobs and so on. They’re really getting shafted by the Democrat Party. But Democrat leaders have made a very cynical… Read more »
We’ve had a border with Mexico for what, 180 years? Why has it only become a major problem in the last several decades. Free stuff, of course.