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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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Surprise! Consider what our leaders could achieve with the elimination of the electoral college, a few major cities could steamroll entire sections of the country with importunity.
Cities voted trump also, it’s election fraud.
Not sure big cities voted for Trump, but I have my doubts about the legitimacy of the state’s attorney’s elections…I have no evidence of course, just a hunch though.
Don’t worry about any evidence. Just go with your gut feeling. If you don’t like how an election turns out just ignorantly say it was fraud and you’ll instantly feel better. Evidence and facts are for the other guys.
I think Trump won 150 million to nothing. I don’t have any proof but boy does it make me feel better.
“Evidence and facts are for the other guys.” Voters must trust and have faith in the voting and electoral process to accept the evidence and facts as truthful. And I no longer any faith in the truthfulness of the electoral process in Illinois. Nearly all of northern IL went totally blue, deep deep blue, in 2020, after the voting rules were loosened to allow for balloting harvesting, late voting, voting out of precinct, same day registration, no voter ID (although that has been around a while), allowing absentee ballots to be counted up to 14 days after the election….and what… Read more »
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/park-ridge/ct-prh-fallon-difranco-race-tl-1203-20201125-w77gms3jlvaq7ogxipd23t6nye-story.html This is just one of many races in IL where 502 ‘mail-in’ votes counted two weeks after election day, out of 165,450 casted votes, flipped an election that the Republican had seemingly won with a large lead on election day. And of course, when he tried to go to court, “a Cook County judge “denied the DiFranco campaign a temporary restraining order (from certifying the vote totals) and dismissed any and all allegations of fraud in this race.” See, no fraud! No you can’t see the 502 votes, or contest the count, or question why it took two weeks… Read more »