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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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To what end? What are they hoping to accomplish save virtue signaling?
Hope they will eventually recognize their folly and find something productive to do with their time.
Stupid chickens!
Waste of time and they will freeze to death.
Will they all be wearing those pink “p*ssy hats”…???
lefty fashion has moved on to keffiyehs
Possibly. More embarrassingly, Mr. Ramos was wearing his red commie shirt.
Mr. Ramos thinks that over 100 million corpses of those sacrificed to his ideology isn’t nearly enough. It’s just the kind of leftist extremist that Wilmette Talking To Winnetka is only too obliging in providing taxpayer-funded air time.
Emily Soto, DNC typist for Wilmette Talking To Winnetka, is back. This time with more taxpayer-funded publicity for the militant anti-American wing of her network’s favourite political party, the Democrats. It does ring hollow this time around, as Presient Trump’s resounding victory in November was mostly a repudiation of policies fortifying these same anti-American militants. The red ‘socialism’ shirt that Eric Ramos, WTTW’s well-fed militant leftist paid spokes-child du jour, tells one all we need to know. The ones that Mr. Ramos ostensibly agitates for have by and large become refugees from the same socialist policies that his red shirt… Read more »
Also known as CTU Cadre Development Day.
pure stupidity
March until you can no longer stand. The people have spoken. And bring blankets. It’s going to be cold.
Would be a good day to bring back the tradition of hosing protesters that refuse to disperse. A light misting would suffice.
Pound them with rubber bullets also.
I hope those protesters have their long undies on & lots of hot coco. City may want provide warming buses—-it’s going to be soooooooo COLD!!!
The Paddy Wagons will be nice and warm.