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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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She lost my vote next time over this. Go away racist!
Just glad I don’t have to vote for her
“People of color”
Is that the same as “colored people”?
She just doesn’t get it. She is a racist and doesn’t even bother to hide it any longer. And she doesn’t get why it is wrong, bad politics and and an incredibly bad example for young people.
Racism is the point. You think discrimination is wrong but she thinks discrimination against white people is morally right. She believes that discrimination today is the cure for discrimination of the past. The courts and the law disagree with her – you know, the 14th amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 make discrimination illegal. But just as we think Roe vs. Wade got it wrong, Lori Lightfoot thinks the Civil Rights Act got it wrong too. The law now doesn’t allow for discrimination against whites to ‘fix’ the discrimination by whites of the past. And just as Rosa… Read more »
fake issues for fake leadership
Doubling down on stupid