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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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“Senator Duckworth?” That’s right, you idiots elected that.
Less than a week until the extermination of PBS. Buh bye.
As a longtime former PBS fan and supporter, I watched PBS and WBEZ go off the nonpartison rails.
Sad, but a total rethinking and reorganization are needed and MIGHT save the concept.
Stay woke and become a historic footnote.
Like the rest of her fellow leftist loon democrats on the Armed Services Committee, Tammy Duckworthless looked a complete fool during this hearing. Illinois sends imbeciles to Washington to represent them and they can be counted on to embarrass the state.
Defund PBS. Right now.
I saw this one blowing a gasket in her leather SS garb and was reminded of footage of Yoko Ono chewing John Lennon out. Never mentioned is the story of an expensive aircraft she lobbied to pilot although unqualified to do so that crashed costing the taxpayers billions, with a B, of dollars. Maybe she took her legs off to get her way on that thing too. She and her cohort Durbin are perfect examples of the rot embedded in IL politics and politicians.
A sympathy vote election winner.
Talk about a embarrassing moment for Duckworth, tough talk, yelling like a fool figures a representative of Illinois.
She looked like a child throwing a temper tantrum. Vote her out. The only thing she has done is bring her baby on the senate floor.
She is very low IQ.