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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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Listen to voters- we don’t want illegals
Except that the “voters” here in Evanston are largely imbeciles – they went 92% dem in the election… thus is life in The Progressive Utopia of Evanston…
It’s as deep blue as the most urban inner city districts.
Because they’re so much more educated and humane than we deplorables. Ask them, they’ll let you know.
Indeed! Here’s an article from the leftist “Evanston Roundtable” about this… just look at the pic of the beaming leftard idiots who promoted this destructive nonsense: https://evanstonroundtable.com/2025/01/14/welcoming-city-amendments-pass-unanimously-as-evanston-braces-for-trump-immigration-actions/
My Evanston 4th Ward went _98%_ for the dems, lol…!!! Being conservative in Evanston is akin to being a *very* closeted gay or a dissident in the o!d East Germany or USSR…
They will virtue signal until (and maybe after) one of their daughters is raped and murdered (God forbid!)
Correct, and they’ll still never take down the ” Hate Has No Home Here! ” lawn placards in front of their mansions…