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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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Lori is a total pandering fool to every special interest group and now she sucks up to phony Sam Toia. No vaccines for the elderly, disabled, immune compromised or cancer and heart patients. Only vaccines for ghetto churches, Mexican community centers, commie CTU and now cash working bartenders, waitresses and bus boys who do not pay taxes nor contribute to society. They will get their way. Lori has to go . And dirty hair Arwady is a lying loser taking the cues firm racist Lori. She promised there was not enough vaccines for elderly but now there’s shortages because of… Read more »
And remember when the anti-maskers were the grandma and grandpa killers? These people all suck. I’m so sick of the incompetence.
To sum it all up nobody knows what the hell they are doing all incompetent politicians and doctors.