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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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But the improvement in Math scores and Reading ability will probably be astounding! Worth every penny of the $522 million I’m sure!
The whole system is failing. As it is now it is only going to get worse.
There’s Stacey clapping for her little boy toy puppet
If he isn’t giving money to illegals it’s going to the CPS.
Johnson has to take care of his bosses.
Simply amazing. Enrollment has trended down, and schools that don’t even have 100 students attending are being kept open. Finally, Proficiency scores are so bad that they lowered the standards.
Chicago is paying Nordstrom rates, and getting Wal-Mart results from the CTU.
well deserved
Any good mob boss knows that you have to keep the henchmen happy or they may turn on you.
Just as Trump said he will cut Democrat priorities with this shutdown, BJ will take care of his supporters in the same way. Politics 101.
That’s why Reagan stated that government is the problem not the solution. Whether you are a rat democrat or rat republican politician, the common denominator is that you are thieving scum. So eliminate as much of government as possible and we talk less about the tit for tat and more about fixing what is broken.