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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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What’s worse than the scarf is Johnson posing with a leader of CAIR, an Islamofascist, terrorist-supporting organization.
His clueless, Alfred E. Newman grin ranks right up there with another simpleton’s, LA mayor Karen Bass. While the place is falling apart around them, they sit around sporting a blissful, Jack-o- Lantern smile.
Look at that picture. He has no idea what that represents. He looks brain damaged. So does the dude next to him. They both must go to the same beauty shop. Both Pin Heads.
C’mon, give Brando a little slack. He is the mayor of West Gaza, so what do you expect him to wear?
I’ll even bet that when Brando needs a break from all the pressure, he hides in one of the many tunnels in the Loop, just like you’d expect a West Gazan leader to do.
Brandon’s support of Islamofascism’s apologists is raggedy, but I’d be more concerned for my Jewish family members and friends if “Mr. 6%” aligned himself with we supporters of the State of Israel.
A pair of cone heads
Can we send them both to Gaza. One way ticket and no return.
Right. Because BJ is massively racist AND antisemitic. A proud and typical member of Chicago Teachers Union.
He was hoping to get the prize of a backyard goat for his personal enjoyment
Clueless.