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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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Amazing. This is tantamount to Enforced Virtue Signaling Extortion.
These “city leaders” are expecting “local businesses, residents” to display these signs, Regardless of what their feelings on the subject of Illegal Immigration are. And from what I’ve seen, most Black Americans in Inner City Chicago are very much against the preferential treatment that Illegals receive at their expense.
Make sure you put them next to your gun free zone sign.
Johnson is a joke.
Put one in your window ,and I’ll shop elsewhere. Even if I am a loyal customer. I’m gone
Please remember to spill out your drink and
ice before entering this business.
have a nice day.
These are the disgusting people you voted for, Dems. Choke on them and the criminals that they enable.
Dems in 1861:
Confederacy hands out signs to plantation owners:
Union Soldier Free Zone!
Leave Our Slaves Alone!!