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"This is an almost violently anti-American building. It’s awful in ways difficult to fully describe. But as a representation of the man and the political figure it honors, it fits. And that’s what’s worst of all."
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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Took park district land illegally. Removed 100’s of trees . Ruined the traffic flow in the area and lastly it’s not a presidential library it’s a tribute to a pos .
I’m going with the looks like a prison poll, perhaps they can convert it to hold the treasonist Obama.
It looks like a Chinese food takeout box
A nondescript, ugly , plain building reminiscent of the finest in Soviet post- WWII architecture, built on confiscated public land that will be maintained at the taxpayers expense. Sums up the slick, smilin divider Obama perfectly.
Looks like a high rise prison. Did they get the architect of Chicago’s federal Metropolitan Correctional Center to design this building?
It represents DEI hires. Now it over budget with failing concrete.
I don’t know about all that. What I do know is:
A. It’s ugly.
B. it’s in a stupid location.