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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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Just wait until mid January, those ‘migrants” will wonder what the hell they were thinking picking Chicago.
After a few really cold days, they should be offered transportation back to wherever the hell they came from (and I don’t mean Texas).
Cheaper than supporting them indefinitely.
Where’s the montage of Lori Lightfoot and her virtue signaling rhetoric of how Chicago’s values are Sanctuary City Values? If it ran 24-7, as criminal-gone-sideways video do; on 2,5,7,and especially 9. The people of Chicago wouldn’t be asking, rhetorically really, “how did this happen?”.
You speak English today because several hundred thousand military aged men left their homelands (Anglia, Jutland, Saxony) to invade a foreign land (Britannia). Along the way they slaughtered all of the native men and interbred with their women. The few native men that remained gathered their families and moved as far west on the island as they could. The legend of King Arthur arose out of their exodus to avoid the slaughter. This invasion experiment (la invitacion de Biden) they call it Spanish, is the stupid idea to bring hundreds of thousands of single, military aged men into the country,… Read more »
There was a time in my life when you would proudly say you were from Chicago. Can’t say that anymore.
Exactly, when we’re on vacation we used to say we were from Chicago now we say we’re from a suburb far outside of Chicago.
According to a figure I heard the other day, of the 100,000 immigrants that have arrived in NYC 13,000 were shipped there by Gov Abbot. The other 87,000 were sent there by the Biden administration.
When a city enables criminal illegals, this is what you get
Chicago’ Problem Is Crime, The Mayor’s Solution Is City-Run Grocery Stores | ZeroHedge
It takes three weeks to leave Chicago due to U-Haul shortages according to one person… It Takes 3 Weeks to Escape Illinois – MishTalk
Zero Hedge is a garbage propaganda rag.
They’re racist too.
You can scream “racist” all you want. That word has no effect any more.
Golly. Are they Nazi’s too?? Come on. Go for the leftist hat trick. Name calling all that you have.
Dave! Did you leave ruined Evanston to ruin Dallas?