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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 just found my retort to structural racism: “Requiring everyone to follow the law is not strutcural racism.”
…and that is precisely what the cops in Bobby Rush’s office were allowing the peaceful BLM protesters to do. It’s good to see that “Dick” Durbin supports local police.
He is so commy how he acts,but you have to remember every vote he has got from people that think just like him.That is how rotten the state of illinois has become.WE moved from il 2 years ago,and life is a joy in a southern state,after 62 years living in il it was great to escape.I bet soon if you sell any property at all and leave the state when you dump the house for half price,the state will get you for 10% or the money.
That is because no serious candidate ever runs against him. It’s not democracy when there is only one real choice on the ballot during most of a voter’s life.