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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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Cook County leaders will find transparency in the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, the Homeland Security Act of 2002, The Secure Fence Act of 2006 and article IV of the US Constitution. Not sure if they can read up to the 4th grade level but they should try.
Yea, yea…whatever. The streets are safer and we spend less when ICE is allowed to do their job.
I live in suburban Cook County. I have zero representation in Cook County these “leaders” are speaking for Chicago only, as usual.
Cook County leaders calling for transparency, eh?
So.. ICE agents are supposed to be unmasked and have ID’s in plain sight to arrest people that hide in the shadows and don’t have legitimate documents, all the while being attacked and harassed by anchor babies , SJW’s and the restaurant union begging Trump to lay off lest they lose their cheap, uninsured, undocumented labor.