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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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That’s real mature, J.B. Grow up.
Let’s see how the clientel at Hyatt Water Tower reacts when men are in the ladies rooms and trannies are in the men’s room. And how about sixty year old men in the ladies rooms? That will go over well.
Grandpa Pritzker won’t be so happy from the grave.
Talk about a silly, rich, bubble dweller. The State of Illinois is collapsing around us. The federal government has $20 triliion in debt, at least five international security problems, 90 million citizens out of the work force– and he wants to focus on bathrooms. This transgender issue affect at most 0.6 percent of the population — and that’s his focus. Hey, did you read the news today about murder in Chicago just this weekend? Maybe you should offer something constructive about that problem for our city.