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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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The immigrants are the Chittys future.
The future is full of doom and gloom. The root cause is overly generous pensions that were promised so the politician could buy the public sector vote. They will sell out the taxpayer at every chance.
Pritzger owns several mansions with lots of bedrooms so send a few dozen illegals to live on his dime.
Don’t forget his hotels … lovely accommodations for illegals. BTW: screw the homeless, the bright shiny new illegals get the resources.
So homeless get to sleep on the street, while illegals get a hotel with mints on the pillow — that’s the best example of sanctuary city madness