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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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Finally some sanity, and from aldermen at that! I hope to see masses of maskless people taking back their freedom. Nothing will ever approach normal again until these symbols of fear get torn off the faces of the people. The time to start challenging restaurants and stores with a maskless face is now.
A full calendar of events means reparations meetings, BLM riots, carjackings, murders, store closings, antifa violence, white self-hatred gatherings, strikes, transgender bathroom grand openings, defunding the police, schools remaining closed, and various other woke BS
It sure is great that Biden got elected so the country can re-open again.
Pretty damn conspicuous how this all worked out, my grand children will read about it in the future about the plandemic.
History is written by the victors
I am not worrying about the uncertainty of the mega events. There is 100 per cent certainty that I will not be there.
Too many will not STEP one foot in Chicago.
Neanderthal thinking, Neanderthal spending
Does anyone see a problem with this? This does not seem like an appropriate use of funds and maybe the Federal Government should go after Chicago if they proceed with this just like they went after folks that misused PPP to buy lavish items like boats and cars.
Spot on. I wonder how they will justify having Lollapalooza if they don’t fully open all schools?
Democrats in charge of Chicago don’t have to justify anything.