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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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Well, they probably voted for Jabba so let them suffer.
In Illinois, a rich white man tells poor African Americans they can’t work and must stay home while he collects his paycheck, remodels his Wisconsin mansion, and his wife runs off to Florida. What a pathetic sight
Summary of public health spin this week on protests:
Minority small business owners working or trying to go to church: BAD, grandma killers, SELFISH
Antifa and gangs looting minority neighborhoods: some things are just too important for pandemic restrictions
Don’t worry. Flounder, Buckwheat, and the media will let them know who is to blame. And it sure isn’t the Dems who’ve forever managed their city and state governments and education systems.
Essentially employees are state and local government employees who pay union dues. That it all, folks.
Do you really think J.B.Pantagruel really cares?
and there you have it, the real racism…thanks Chicago and thanks JB Pritzker, not everyone has a net worth of $3.5 billion like you. TO someone who loses their job, that job was “essential” to them. just smdh.