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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 unions are what seem to rule Illinois.
Everyone else be—–
To Wit: Lori Lightfoot concedes to CTU anytime they apply pressure on her and she takes down a statue of Christopher Columbus in the middle of the night when Antifa applies pressure on her. Some leader we have!!!
Blm asked for the statue removal and it was instigated by Sophia King the alderman for Grant Park and the chair of the progressive caucus. King is really who started the removal process.
Sophia King is a good alderperson, who listens to her constituents. ?
A Cristoffa Corombo statue belongs in Columbus Park, not Grant Park named after a real American. ?
They pretty much get what they want, don’t they?
I’ve gotta hand it to them, they know how to do it. Yes, I think they are a bunch of malcontent communists who have no real world experience or economic understanding, but neither here nor there.
Good article at http://www.naturalnews.com by Mike Adams/ Left wing “terror tantrum” on why kids needed a spanking when they were young.
“…or they will strike.”
YES, YES, YES!!!
STRIKERS DON’T GET PAID!!!
What better way to balance the budget?
Well now we know ctu runs Chicago and Madigan runs Springfield and the state of Illinois. What a bunch of despicable politicians
Well that didn’t take long. CTU demands remote learning or they will strike. Instead of forcing their hand and make the teachers go without pay Lightfoot decides to cave to their demands. Clearly this was orchestrated between the CTU and the mayor. I wonder what their plan is for the 40% of the students who never even checked in to class during the spring? The same people that scream from the top of their lungs about inequity just ensured the gap for the next generation will become even wider. While kids at New Trier or Hinsdale Central may have a… Read more »