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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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Let’s subtract the total cost of Pres. LBJ’s Great Society from any reparations for slavery.
Some animals are more equal than others…..
If you want everything free as is done in a communistic manner then by all means please get on a plane and off to Russia with
You. Your comrade Putin will make everything free just sit back and have another Colt 45 malt , life is good.
LET THESE ACTIVISTS PAY FOR THEIR BS SUGGESTIONS!! would probably be the end of this suggestion.
That US Constitution and discrimination laws seem to elude a lot of people.
Try the 14th section 1, it’s pretty clear.