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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 is all about control. The “hack” to the pipline and the closing of the Keystone pipeline is about control over the “little” people.
Thanks Biden!!!!
No, thank Madam Harris the real President Biden is just a puppet.
Gas prices are higher because crude oil prices are dramatically than a year ago. Has nothing to do with Biden.
nothing? really? Nothing at all? Not that the FBI is so focused on arresting grandmas who trespassed on 1/6 that they completely missed the ransomware hackers? not that trillions of dollars in BidenBucks are sloshing around the economy driving up the cost of everything? Not that Biden’s policies shutdown the Keystone pipeline on day one of his administration? Your comments are usually exceptionally good (assuming you are the same Mike) but there’s a lot of evidence that Biden, and his actions, and the entire foreseeable consequences, have been at least indirectly responsible for rising gas prices. And if anything, every… Read more »
Gas prices are up a dollar nationally as well from a year ago.