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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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.
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From what I’ve read and heard about the Obama center , I hope this guy has major handy man experience. The place sounds like a disaster waiting to happen
Executive Vice President of an unfinished death-star look a like. Sounds lovely. I wonder what his work-day time sheet would look like? Perhaps filled with meetings and appointments with community organizers and faith leaders to build coalitions to push back…what ever the hell that means.
High paid toilet cleaner
He’ll earn his keep as the place will be teeming with the unhoused, unwed mothers and their offspring and other do nothings morning, noon and night.
From one grift to another.