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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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Here’s an “Evanston Roundtable” article (not paywalled). This proposed shelter is right adjacent to the highly – touted Northlight Theater which will be built, which the city has been crowing about. Nothing like an illegal alien shelter right by this sparkling new cultural gem, lol…!!! As debtor mentions, “complete morons”; below is the article link and several reader comments following: Evanston weighs opening temporary shelter to house migrants Vacant downtown office building, Civic Center under consideration https://evanstonroundtable.com/2024/04/05/evanston-migrant-shelter-grant-funding/ READER COMMENT: “I don’t understand how the city has money to do this, with school district 65 having a budget in the negative. I don’t understand… Read more »
great idea, ship them all there!
These people are complete morons, completely untethered from reality, and they live in a world of make-believe, where migrants are all good people just looking for a leg up, instead of an organized exodus of Latin America’s worst of society being exported upon us.
Here’s a link to an “Evanston Now” article about this (paywalled). First, my comment after the article; then an excerpt from the article. Evanston looks to the “leadership” of Oak Park, in this example, lol…!!! City eyes opening migrant shelter https://evanstonnow.com/city-eyes-opening-migrant-shelter/ GM comments: “Don’t worry, Connections for the Homeless CEO Betty Bogg and Interfaith Action will get up in front of the City Council and blubber that “we” are a “compassionate” place, so consider this a “done deal”… This afternoon I went downtown, there were illegals begging in front of Target, CVS, Whole Foods. A clot of them – up… Read more »