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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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Too many idiots with good ideas. A word to the wise,Any idiot can come up with a good idea but it takes brains to make it work.
Lisa, What a dope!! Go away
“Religious Studies Professor Lisa Poirier said the land acknowledgment is an “important first step” for (white) settlers to come to terms with the people and land they’ve occupied for over 200 years.”
I was born here, I am as much a native as the native americans now. I am not a settler. This is truly hilarious stuff here.
Lisa herself is not from Chicago, she is the ‘settler’. We call freaks like her carpetbaggers.
Better look up the “Fourth World Documentation Project”.
The U.N. has been planning to take your home for more than 25 years. Here is a search link:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22Fourth+World+Documentation%22&t=hc&va=u&ia=web