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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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Back in the day back in Detroit in the early 70’s Old Joe occasionally tried to buy beer while being under age. Sometimes I got lucky. The worst thing that could happen is I’d have to walk out of the party store with my tail between my legs and try my luck somewhere else. Looking back I was This was “improperly documented!”
Its kind of funny that these “neighbors” could not find the time or expend the effort to help these “immigrants” get legal status, but they can sure find the time to take to the streets in protest during everyone’s normal work hours.
The protesters were not there to defend their “neighbors”. They probably don’t even live in Chicago, let alone near an illegal alien. They were sent there to put on a big show of opposition to the current administration because they are mad they lost the election.
Antifa and people that rob liquor stores are the only ones still wearing masks in public.
20? Just isn’t the same since USAID rent-a-mob money got cut off.