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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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Aiding and abetting? Thought that was a crime.
😮 Yo hombres, if anyone is in America illegally, it’s called a Federal Crime!
Either self deport or get caught and shipped to Antarctica! Once dropped there you can do whatever you want, just figure it out somehow?
No . It’s to arrest and deport 10-12 Million illegal invaders including 500,00 murders, rapists, child molesters , terrorists and gangbangers.
That’s about as lame as it gets Stratton trying something out of Pritzker’s playbook are ya.