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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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When is Brandon Johnson going to repay the CTU union members two million dollars of their union dues he illegally received while running for mayor ???
Not a dime since he didn’t “illegally” receive any money from the CTU. CTU may have needed to adjust their filing or they may have violated some reporting but that doesn’t mean Johnson did anything illegal. There is so much to complain about BJ it doesn’t make sense to complain about something that isn’t true.
When are you going to REIMBURSE the CTU for the 2 MILLION DOLLARS of TEACHERS UNION DUES you ILLEGALLY received during your mayoral election run ???
National guards can legal assist ICE in supporting federal laws, the legal criminals just have to stay out of the way 😉
Trump is either supremely skilled in choosing his enemies, or extremely lucky. I can’t think of two better enemies to have than Gov. Jelly Belly and Mayor Conehead.
What BJ doesn’t say in in his pleading for more funding for social programs as crime-fighting tools in lieu of increased funding for police officers is that the funding for police officers goes into the police officer’s paychecks…….and BJ and his Democrat AKA Communist CTU scum can’t divert this money into their own evil grifting septic wallets. Period. That is the core issue to ALL of BJ and his CTU maggot puppet masters opposition. These CTU/Public Sector parasites are the most evil foul type of vermin on the planet. If you are a CTU member, you can save your soul but… Read more »
That magazine’s been around for seventy years and, of everything in their archives, you single out the single most racist column they saw fit to print as also being their best.
Mark G., I present to you your website’s readers.
And I present you. We have all kinds here
I appreciate the big-tent philosophy behind this site too but not sure advertising that “we welcome racists” is a good look. Just my $0.02.
Kris in TX
I have no idea what that article says or what you are talking about. We welcomed no racists and we don’t.
The core argument from the article according to ChatGPT.
I didn’t know what the article said either but clearly Fred agrees with this type of thinking.
We already knew this. The thing about morons, though, is they’re seldom aware of their having attained this status.