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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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Heard they didn’t want to do business with a client. When your employees decide who you can do business with because of politics, it’s a path to insolvency.
Good the boorish snowflakes that annoy everyone are gone, now the company can get down to business. Constant political speech and opinion from a coworker is no different than any form of harassment. When a lefty at work starts coming at me every day with their crap, I call HR, no lie.
Apparently nearly all, if not all, the employees who poasted on twitter that they were leaving had pronouns in their Twitter bio. So, really, it’s kind of genius what this CEO did. Last year the Supremes ruled you can’t fire someone for their gender identity (treeself, they, it); but if you get them to voluntarily quit……