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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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Trump will need the finesse that Mussolini lacked. The Dems and the Woke and the MSM will call Trump a fascist and that’s free speech. One hopes that Trump has more subtlety than Biden when going after “enemies.”
Look at Illinois America. You are getting a first hand education about how communists lie and how communism takes over first your city then the state. Look to California and New York as well.
Wide gap between his words and actions.
I wish someone would protect us from him
Come off it,XXXL. Your AG, bought judges and Soros funded DA’s let dangerous criminals out of prison after serving a token, minimum sentence and release repeat offenders with an ankle monitor all day, everyday. The notion that you give a rip about the average citizen’s safety is laughable at best.