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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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I can’t believe I just read this. I thought we were done with her. What rock did she crawl out from under? Everything she has been involved in has been a train wreck.
That’s Madam President and Madam Mayor. ????
We must be kind to her or she’ll call us a crackhead. ☹️??
She’s the first Black female US Senator. Big deal. She’s also the first corrupt Black female US Senator too. ☹️
Carol might have been ok, as Cook County Recorder of Deeds and Illinois State Representative, but she was way over her head as US Senator. Had she been moral and competent, she’d be serving as US Senator now. ?
Know people who no longer live in Illinois call her Carol Mostly Fraud
Braun will contact the FBI seeking the Hunter Biden laptop to study it’s graduate level lessons in graft and corruption.
Carol Moseley Braun is a shakedown artist. Completely incompetent in anything she does, she looks for a free ride, or better yet, free money. She’s awful, and fit in well with the Biden administration.