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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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If local police will not remove protesters from blocking ICE facilities Trump has no choice but to do the job himself. As for the militarization of ICE, doesn’t the Illinois State Police have a SWAT team that looks just the same?
Pritzker is just afraid he can’t have election fraud by having illegals vote, among other fraud tactics. That’s why Hes against voter ID and dead people voting.
I don’t blame Pritzker one bit for saying that, as Sad Sack as he is. Project 2025 says he’s right.
LOL!!!!!!! I was looking for the laugh button but this isn’t Facebook.