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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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BJ’s job is to loot the city. He’s going to pay off all the union (except the FOP), he’s going to hand out cash to all his favorite cronies, and when he’s left office, everything not nailed down will be stolen, and there won’t be as much as a stapler left. The dude probably has numerous pilfered boxes of staples and rolls of toilet paper stashed in his basement. He steals them just because he can.