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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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The City Council is taking a position on Freedom of Speech, like they did decades ago during the “Mirth and Girth” controversy during the Harold Washington years. Hypocrisy at its best,
So now Chicago city council supports terrorists?
Yes. There’s no understating how bad Khalil truly is — truly in the league with a noncitizen Nazi SS member operating on our soil. His group, CUAD, is essentially an arm of Hamas, which views itself as being at war with the U.S. They openly support violence of the worst kind as part of their cause. This is not a free speech case. It’s about removal of a noncitizen, active terrorist. This is a new low point for Chicago City Council.
Marxists supporting a fellow traveler.
Absent in discussions about this terrorist sympathizer is that he’s a 31 year old “student”!