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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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Wasn’t Madame Lafarge eventually beheaded by the revolution? I’d guess that Mr Costello has a weak understanding of history, revolutions and his beloved mob. No one is ever pure enough for the mob. Eventually the guillotine will come for him too.
I love how super wealthy people all of a sudden get woke. Where was Dick’s wokeness when he was struggling at Second City and took the gig at Feedburner? Why wasn’t Feedburner practicing “ethical capitalism”? How about Twitter?
For the record, no one is lining me up. I will follow the Charlton Heston ethos on firearms. For those of you too young to know who Charlton Heston is, or what he said, use a search engine
Violence and murder are the new normal on the fascist left. The Antifa branch of the Democrat Party is no different than Hitler’s Brownshirts
BLM sucks.
Antifa sucks.
Andy Ngo is awesome.
Lara Logan has more balls than Dick.
Can’t believe this hasn’t provoked more comments- truly frightening! We all need to wake up and soon.
Careful, Dick. The real revolution may not go down quite they way you think.