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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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This race hustling fraud is a perfect illustration of why the Democrat party is polling at its lowest level in decades.
Chicago…welcome to the third world.
The supposed lawyer in the article says he was just doing lawyer things. But he doesn’t say he represents anybody, so he is just one more protester. And the lawyer says they wouldn’t even say whether they had a warrant, but police/ICE don’t need to show a warrant to strangers. They might have had one, or maybe not, and maybe they don’t need one (it depends). But they don’t have to show them to a line of demonstrators on the street. It is too bad it takes federal employees to come in and find some of the illegal foreign actors… Read more »
Something has to be done to clean up the crime in the city. We’ve all wanted safe ,livable communities. If the alderman and mayor won’t do it than bring in the feds
This is illegal and these people need to be arrested, then face federal charges
Yeah! Like Jan 6th!
How clever! Did you come up with that all by yourself, or did you see it on Bluesky?
I don’t care if you’re a lefty, but please up your game by saying something intelligent.
Have a nice day!
Are you talking about the more than 250 FBI agents that were there on Jan. 6? I am always in favor of arresting government employees since they are all thieves anyway.