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"A city perceived as high crime, high cost and more concerned with pleasing union bosses than trade-show organizers must improve its reputation."
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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Can;t really blame people not feeling safe here especially with all the illegals roaming free
is thumbs down an illegal?? or a libTARD??
Since the thumbs down are red they are deep down Republicans at heart.