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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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I’ve got bad news for my fellow Illinoisians. Cause and effect are not the strong suit of a Progressive pol.
OH BOY!, now the products are ‘systemically racist’ (or that’s what BJ’s implying)…what better place to start filing these lawsuits than Illinois.
Makes sense in Illinoisland. Consider guns kill people; not the person that pulls the trigger
This happens because POC want good things without hard study and labor. LBJ prediction that POC would vote Democrat for fifty years in exchange for handouts has proven correct.
Wanna blame someone for car theft — blame crime-enabling shit-bags like BJ the Race Clown
Dese kids is depraved on account a theys deprived.
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