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.
The fckng Trib! The worst traffic in the country? How about the worst city in the country! Interview the dead and get their opinion, can’t find them? Just go the the list of voters, there’s lots of them! Check how many have been around for twelve decades!