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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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In Detroit there’s been a movement to declare water access a right.
Why should she pay her bills, Brandon doesn’t? And nothing witnessed done to either one.
Did she learn that from Brandon, or did Brandon learn that from her ?
They both seem to have a problem paying their bills.
Lori Lightfoot was the one that came up with the Marxist notion that water was a basic human right, whether you pay for it like everyone else or not. Homie and Gates sure jumped all over that idea.
Why should she? Or for that matter why should anyone?