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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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Evanston will protect all 10 recently-arriving migrants presently living at its hotel-shelter. Talk about empty gestures and virtue-signaling politicians.
The grasping libtard Evanston “Mayor” Biss is a creepy clone of that notorious Kalifornia slime – bag Gavin Newscum…
Call it ‘sanctuary’, ‘welcoming’, or whatever. Lawlessness by any name is the same.
Diversity is a weakness that creates polarization, ethic segregation, low trust communities. We have a hard enough time keeping good race relations between blacks and whites. now they want to import the entire 3rd world too!
“Well, those California Liberals are ‘different’ than us Evanston Liberals”.