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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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BJ The Race Clown shouldn’t depend on cops to keep the peace during the Convention.
It will be a week of “cough cough” sick outs and slower than molasses police response — if any response at all.
BJ will have to explain how defunding the police is working out for Chicago.
Maybe BJ will give out bullet proof vests to all Convention attendees?!