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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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Instead of squandering taxpayers money on giveaways and protection to the illegals why not apply it to the pension debt…oh that’s right. Every illegal is a future voter for the usual Democrats.
The purpose of this bill is to turn every red state blue. It is how they set out to destroy their political enemies. That is, until, Bernie comes to power. There will be gulags all over the interior of California and the northwoods of Vermont.
Thankfully the national Republican Party has its stuff together.
Like most democrat bills in the House (some 400 of them) this one will never see the light of day. I think it’s actually a good thing to force a vote on this steaming pile of you-know-what.
Good campaign ad fodder for the RNC.
Don’t ever say this bill won’t pass it has 44 supporters to date, it has been held secret for the last 2 to 3 months until it was revealed by Tucker Carlson. This will destroy America if it or some form of it passes.
Everyone better pay attention, this bill has been before Congress for the last 2 months and has been keep quiet until now. Do you want to see America be destroyed, do you want to pay more for illegal immigrants do you want them to all have free health care, so forth and so on, we the Americans can’t even get it. Garcia if you want to liberalize the Hispanic world here is something to consider, GO Back to the homelands AND DO IT THERE. Do not destroy America. America if Democrats get in in 2020 god help us all, and… Read more »
Does this not faze anybody, can you only imagine what’s going to happen. Sit back and think my god, America cannot take care of its own, let alone millions of more illegals, what the hell