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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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Gates pulling the race card.
CTU is a POLITICAL ORGANIZATION. Only 18% of Union dues is actually spent on Union business. The rest is donations to POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS, Salaries and administrative costs .
The Model of BANKRUPTCY.
The Socialist takeover.
What is in this woman’s resume’ that makes local news drool over her comments? She’s NOTHING
Tragically, she is the key figure in how Chicago kids are being educated. That’s why.
Writing or re-writing history is always a first priority for the modern carpetbagger progressive$$$…you always gotta whip up a new batch of kool-aid bs to keep the lib-tards sipping…..the CTU ‘new machine’ is always a public hustle vrs the Madigan ‘old machine’–“we don’t want nobody nobody sent” racket.