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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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The Democrats convention in Chicago this coming summer will be a shit show of epic proportions. It might even eclipse the 1968 debacle.
With the nonstop talk about abortion why is there not one word said about abstinence-virginity-using protection to PREVENT the need for an abortion and STD’s?. Not one word from the governor or health officials. Why???
Preventing abortion is not part of the liberal agenda, in fact prevention is against the liberal agenda.
Abortions are eugenics, and THAT is the liberal agenda.
That, and those who are unfortunate enough to have an abortion, become Democrats for life, and evangelists for the party…for life.
Exactly. You are the carbon that they want to eliminate!
Hmm, won’t be a good look…
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