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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’d love to see some slick Chicago politician cross Jacob and Lorene Snell.
With all this focus on African American voters, Republicans would be wise to embrace Hispanic, Middle Eastern, and Asian voters. Many are small business owners, church-going who want decent schools with no indoctrination, government services without government overreach, and a law enforcement presence that deters crime but doesn’t harass them. These folks have bills to pay and lives to lead. They have no time for all this woke bullshit. In other words, they are much like their rural downstate counterparts. These voters are growing in numbers and ripe for the taking.
Democrats have alienated with rural voters with their satanist communist values. There’s no way to fix this. Rural voters don’t want gender bending taught in school, critical race theory, entrenched anti-rural policies, gun grabbing. These ARE the core values of the Democrat party and these values are an existential threat to rural voters.
I hope they have all been alienated enough to motivate them to actually vote.
Nice article however hard to believe the rural voters will actually go and vote. Last election in my small town had a 16% turnout.
Red wave is coming 2022,2024!
Hopefully.