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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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Nope . Not going to happen . It’s bad enough they are posting on social media or apps when ICE attempts to make arrests so the “ PEACEFUL RIOTERS” can show up .
Answer: We are doing our job enforcing the law, thank you for your interest.
They want to know all the details so they can send their prepaid protestors to the site with their preprinted posters? Now that Dems have unleashed violet attacks on federal agencies, the feds have to protect those workers. If Chicago could have behaved themselves and allowed the violent criminals to be deported, they could have had more cooperation in this whole process. Instead they screw the citizens of the state and protect illegals.