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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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Modernizes? A new digital clock in the hall.
Wouldn’t computerization result in FEWER employees and thus the elimination of ‘understaffing”? Isn’t that the point of computers? Maybe in the real world but not in the disgusting perverted universe of government work. Nationwide, Clerk of the Court offices have traditionally been one of the largest staffed offices in a county from ye olden days of manual filing. Politicians loved this political office because they had a batillion of “boots-on-the-ground” campaign workers built into the post allowing the Elected Clerk Of the Court to dole out staff to other politicians campaigns and then collect political IOU’s, favors and “chits” from… Read more »
If by modernize, they mean give ‘busy work’ jobs to clerks that used to handle in-person filings, then yes. However, the website is still only partially operational from the August breach, and lawyer friends I have tell me that it’s impossible to download copies of orders from internet, something that most other court systems have been doing for a decade, or like in federal court, nearly two decades…