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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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Stand up now to these scumy teachers!
Shame on Lightfoot. Shame on Pritzker. Shame on CTU. Shame on Biden. Stop the death narrative and stop giving everyone an excuse to abuse our children.
They are liberal Democrats, F*cking things up is all they know how to do!
These people aren’t liberal Democrats. They are progressives which is just another name for communist. Destruction is the goal. When they say dismantle systemic oppression, they really mean destroy what exists and hope something better replaces it. But as you can see, the communist is great at destroying but hasn’t quite fully thought through the replacing part. The communists took over Russian in 1918 and destroyed all that existed (dismantling feudalism and the aristocracy!). By 1921 the country experienced a massive famine throughout the country that killed about 5,000,000 people. How many people have died as a result of the… Read more »
Escalating crime, no prosecution. National police force to “restore order”. The culmination of their plans.