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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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Sarah Schulte, typist and activist for the DNC, does her best Kim Foxx impersonation, completely ignoring immigration law. Insanely, she parrots the position of political animals Ramiriez and Garcia dutifully, demanding that taxpayers in Mississippi and Florida pony up for the insanity in Illinois. Large groups of children begging and panhandling on Chicago street corners is the true result of what Schulte and the political animals demand. Those here illegally need to go back where they came from, regardless of their illegally obtained employment in the USA. Violators and those at government agencies that aid and abet direct violation of… Read more »
Why would you give anything to a criminal sneaking into the country.
Defund ILLEGALS!
Claw back every penny of the taxpayers money that was spent without their consent and shouldn’t have been in the first place.
It is despicable that Democrats today use the same arguments they did in 1861 to defend slavery: Who will pick the crops? Who will do the laundry? Who will wash the dishes? Who will make our food? Despicable. You’re a gross & despicable person, Delia.