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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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Don’t forget the alcoholic beverage manufacturers that are guilty of making people overindulge and go drive a car and kill someone in an accident. Make it make sense! Inanimate objects and their makers are completely at fault for the decisions of the people using them. *eye roll*
Automakers, take note. You are now accessories to any crime committed employing one of tour vehicles.
Scumbag lawyers looking for a big payday injured their smarmy faces with the sheer size of their grin,
Railroader, its not just scumbag lawyers, it’s the Plaintiffs, the judges, the juries, the people of Lake County too. If Kyle Rittenhouse was tried in Waukegan rather than Kenosha he’d be spending his life in prison because Lake County is a cesspool of progressive Democrats. Everyone in the system wants to play their part in the theatere, performing the role they are required to play to achieve the progressive outcome. Before the holocaust began, Nazi Germany was much the same way, where jewish people were punished in the court system unfairly and unjustly. No one in the system even tried… Read more »
Makes sense. Let’s sue Chrysler for producing Chargers and other muscle cars that are constantly causing accidents and driving recklessly. After, they market those to kids also, right?
Sue for any speeding car accident, why are they allowed to make a car that goes 160 MPH is that legal ANYWHERE?
😮 Simple, because we like them?
Same thing with attractive women!
God could give you ugly, very easily!