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.
36% of voters have a favorable opinion of CTU. 36%! After all the strikes, after the dismal report cards. low test scores and empty schools, 36% still support CTU.
With 36% of your population essentially dead from the neck up, you are sunk. 1 in 3 of your voters are morons.