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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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You can thank the worthless public schools for this result.
So they voted for the Status Quo? GTFOOH!
I spent 46 years as a liberal.
I had dozens of debates with conservatives and NEVER ONCE felt silenced or belittled.
I became a conservative 6 years ago.
Now I deal with more hate, censorship, character attacks and lost relationships per month than the prior 46 years combined.
LOL they showed up at the ballot box to vote for…….the exact same people who put them into the terrible mess they are in now. It’s the ‘right wing boogey man’ in some other state, far away, that is responsible for the “status quo”. These voters probably don’t even know a single Republican. One elite urban friend I had told me that knew not a single person who voted for Trump. Another elite urban friend of mine on college, living on teh west coast, told me that I was THE ONLY person he knew that was unvaccinated. The ONLY one,… Read more »
The only extremism I have seen in the last 5 years was overwhelmingly leftist unless they are talking about the mean tweets? The stroll through the capital? I guess we are going to pretend the 2020 summer of love and the global purge of conservatives via the fake vaccines just didn’t happen.
***—the rise of
right-wingleft-wing extremism and fascism here in America and abroad.—***Fixed it…
The most gaslit generation ever…
“Right wing extremism”? Looks like this generation is hopelessly lost.
They have bought the propaganda , hook line and sinker!