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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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Disgusting. What is wrong with the progressives in this state. Murdering babies. and then they look you straight in the eye and say that a 39 week old baby isn’t a baby, the woman carrying the child isn’t a mother, and murdering that innocent child is health care. I truly feel like I live in bizarro world.
The number of pictures signs I’ve seen online lately reading “abortion is a human right” have turned my stomach. Yet this is what constitutes “progress” in this day and age.
All part of the plan to make every sovereign state ungovernable. All you need is a large enough group of suggestible individuals and you can turn everyone against each other. Then you just need an authoritarian with big ideas to swoop in and clean up the mess. Orwell warned us about this…
Ah, the down voters are out today I see. Keep denying it all you want. Keep pleasing your overlords. You’ll be among the first against the wall when they make their power grab.