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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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Typical mental disordered liberal BS. Equity…blah blah blah. Women’s sports need a seat at the table…blah blah blah. Sorry but with few exceptions, women’s sports is a money loser. That is the reality. Until then, you need to disabuse yourself of the notion that equity is a meaningful argument. It isn’t.
Women’s sports could be a winner if women started watching and attending women’s sports. But they do not. And until that day comes, they can blame themselves.
The Ghost of the Pontiac Silverdome is haunting Chicago!