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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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Christopher Columbus never had hot food.
We need Global warming.
So you can’t indoors but you can eat outdoors in a smaller building now called a cabin. Why not just call the restaurant a cabin? Heated tables but cold food.
Do you need to order thermal underwear with your cold food on a warm table?
Might as well eat indoors.
Remember all Illinois judges and the Supreme Court are as corrupt as Madigan
The heated tables idea show clearly how stupid the judges are. I’m sure this is a connected loser. The idea is absurd. It’s shameful.
The heated tables are zero emission solar tables made from recycled materials by minorities, right?