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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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ICE needs to pound on her door in the middle of the night, drag her criminal husband out and put him on the first plane out of America.
Why would anyone ever be proud of being from Latin America. Totally useless region and I challenge Ms Ramirez to name even one good thing that part of the world has ever produced.
She can’t, because it hasn’t.
Uh, coffee maybe?
If her husband is undocumented what in the hell is he still doing here and let her follow him back to Guatemala.
Jack Lucey’s very negative article about Congresswoman Delia Ramirez has racist undertones. Has he not gotten any? Here is what’s wrong with his article (and him): “I’m a proud Guatemalan before I’m an American” Lucey strips this quote of all context without providing the full speech, venue details, or surrounding remarks. This selective quotation represents journalistic malpractice designed to manufacture controversy. Many Americans express pride in their heritage while serving in Congress – this is neither unusual nor problematic. The implication that ethnic pride somehow disqualifies someone from American public service reveals a narrow, exclusionary view of American identity. “ICE… Read more »
Good luck with that, Ricardo.
I hope he isn’t in sales. He sure didn’t sell me.
That’s good. Now next week we’ll work on font sizing.
The expected way of managing taxpayer funds in Illinois is to mismanage taxpayer funds in Illinois. We taxpayers have been abused so much over the years that almost no high level of greed/mismanagement/incompetence surprises us anymore. We need to elect officials who will manage our money properly. They’re very hard to find.