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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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Pritzker sits in his maid-sterilized residence then asks older poll workers to go out and get exposed to an all day train of random people. My wife and I didn’t vote today, made no sense. Maybe it was too hard for him to reschedule a fixed election or he got his marching orders from Madigan.
“Pritzker sits in his maid-sterilized residence then asks older poll workers to go out and get exposed to an all day train of random people.”
The democrat party doesn’t care about it’s voters, they only care about the votes. They know most everyone votes democrat already.
Im sure all the pulic sector unions made sure all thier members got mail in ballots