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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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When they took the weekend off from counting, how many people had access to the abandoned ballot boxes? No poll watchers? No election judges? Just a room full of ballots in a public building. Even the janitor could have rigged the election.
Slowness is a feature, not a bug. They designed it this way precisely so they could cheat. Really, every other country in the world has more voting security than Democrat run blue states. They designed the system so they could cheat and they get away with it because Democrat voters want them to cheat.