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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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The pause in hostilities that Dick so heartily craves was interrupted on October 7, 2023, by Hamas.
Israel stops when Hamas surrenders, not before. Dick.
I think it is hilarious that little Dick Durbin thinks he holds any sway over the Israelis.
Mind your own business, Dickie. We have enough issues here. Hey, have you heard, Dickie, we’re being invaded. Why don’t you do something about that?
What an arse. He’s an embarrassment.
Dick just doesn’t want anymore pro Palestinian protesters showing up on his front lawn again. He probably crapped his depends worse than Biden when that happened. So Dick gives into the terrorists and talks a lot without saying anything. He’s worthless.
Now they will listen to Durbin since he spoke. NOT!
Dick, it’s a good thing you weren’t in Congress in 1941 thru 1945 or we’d be speaking German.
I remember when he called our troops Nazis.