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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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It is a tragedy that the state is so focused on grooming, transing and murdering children in the womb that it totally neglects the children in substandard living arrangements. Which is tragically what Democrats accuse Republicans of – not caring for children after they are born.
In the DCFS what counts good jobs, benefits, and huge pensions for Lackie government workers is. Why do a job for anyone, pays just as well doing nothing. It is every man for themselves work ethic.