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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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Maher needs to wise up and realize that, to the baiters, anything not invented, utilized by and benefiting blacks is racist.
Nice that Maher, a liberal, calls out the cancer that is the CTU, and its dangerous leader, but what took you so long? Of course, the criticism had to come from outside Illinois, as the extreme progressives are never questioned from within by the local mainstream media witnessing it all. Brando and the CTU are revealed as clowns every day. Governor Blowhard watches and does nothing. Is he still in Nevada?
Schools are barely teaching reading, writing and arithmetic. They’ve become woke madrassas with a side helping of common core nonsense. You should see some of the nonsense my son brought home from math class several years ago. Everything is in the metric system. They had him weighing gallons of paint by the kilogram. They have him drawing boxes with squiggly lines to figure out the answer to 9/3 = 3. While my son would score in the 90th % on statewide tests, he would pull his hair out, or flat out refuse, to do “deconstruction by composition of number arrays”… Read more »