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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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Lets see how him and the Democratic party would look if Madigan can’t work the strings and Illinois goes red. Of course we need voters to get off the dem bandwagon and see what’s going on here
JB The Hutt keeps clowning himself on national TV — wagging all 5 of his chins at gerrymandering in Texas — after having signed off the nation’s worst example of gerrymandering in Illinois (in breach of his own campaign promise not to do so). No wonder he was kicked out of the family biz for being a useless load.
#SelfOwn
Cheating, thumb in the scale, cemetery voters is the only thing that keep democrats in power. That’s their game, cheat, lie then deny. The democrats hate you and hate America