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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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I draw the line a dyeing my beer…the river not so much!
Oh my…I no longer feel safe…Lol
“the process of dying the river can sustain harmful ecological ideas,”
No, but it does sustain harmful stupid opinions of those who kneel at the altar of Mother Earth.
Wow. Giving any consideration to the thoughts of some clown who tells us what our perception of a waterway is by dying it green once a year. Again, wow.
Crazy arse greenies spewing more stupidity!!
Stop it already with this B.S pound sand ass_ole
Green advocate Green is blue and sees Red, because he doesn’t like Green River.