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"If I had to guess, it's in the hundreds, for sure -- maybe 400 or 500 people who would normally be working on those shows,” says Jim Shearer, manager of Chicago's Essanay Studio and Lighting. "It's not just the people who are members of the union that are out of work. There are outside companies like caterers and lumber companies..."
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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How do you get an unemployed actor off of your front porch?
Pay him for da pizza!!
For Guv Pigchop that’s pizzas.
Well on the brighter side no more film crews will be running for cover when a gun battle erupts while they are filming. Action movies with REAL action.
The people in the picture look like they’re having fun. Personally I hope they’re on strike for 20 years. Overwhelmingly liberal and the Hollyweird crowd is a menace to this country.