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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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Should be fixed now. Thanks.
If the republicans had any you know what they would order up buses and bus every illegal and send them to the United Center drop them off and tell them there’s a big party happening
Chicago has to move illegal immigrant sites so they won’t be seen during DNC.
Media outlets with backbone should be reporting this issue for what it really is. A Pritzker human trafficking operation of criminal illegal aliens. Providing aid and shelter. Paid for by the citizens of Illinois.
Most local media has the spine of McRib. I’m not expecting much.
Media support the illegal immigrants, I mean refugees that are more American than the deplorables…
send them all back or let JP use his hotels………