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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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Hmm…..to bad it wasn’t Fr. Pfleger at St. Sabina’s. He actually needs a punch.
On parole for Armed Robbery. ARMED robbery…but on the street. What is wrong with that picture? Makes no sense. Good God.
Not sure that Amazon delivery job he interviewed for is going to work out.
But crime is down!
It doesn’t matter who he punched. Another case of letting another thug back on the streets.
Momma say he is a goot boy on his way to choir practice.
“the priest drove to the cathedral at 730 North Wabash to check the mail and have lunch with some nuns … He parked his 2015 Toyota RAV4 in front of the church, leaving it unlocked with the keys in the ignition.”
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