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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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This burn victim and others, should be able to sue lawmakers, courts, etc, because they allowed vicious criminals loose to destroy their lives! Sure there are laws protecting them all, but those laws should be invalid when life-changing crimes were allowed by these elected or publicly paid people who ignored common sense!
Enough is enough!
Why should he worry. He has a squad outside his house 24/7 like the rest of them
Dart has never gone against his democratic masters in his life. Kneels like a good boy, yes sir!
Tom The Tool Dart couldn’t wait to unload the program. Now all the heat sit’s with the court..