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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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So much for a library being a place to read for education or entertainment. It is now a social services center for the enabled that use the facilities to clean up or sleep, when their not being disruptive or, as happened in Joliet, burning the place down.
Gosh, I remember when the public library was a temple of silence like a church in the off hours when services weren’t being conducted and an old biddy would shush you if you were too loud. Old Joe even paid an occasional library fine for an overdue book.
Now they double as a homeless shelter, cooling shelter, warming shelter, opioid treatment center, and mental health counseling center. My 1st girlfriend majored in library science in the 80’s back in Michigan. I don’t remember that she signed onto all this wokery nonsense. I need another Lite beer.
Try a Spotted Cow from New Glarus.
NO NEW GLARUS BEER. DEB CAREY THE OWNER IS A FAR LEFT LIBERAL TURD. SHE SUPPORTS FAR LEFT LIBERAL CANDIDATES IN WI TO KEEP IT BLUE.
I STOPPED DRINKING NEW GLARUS YEARS AGO. There are dozens of other non-liberal owned beer companies in Wisconsin that make much better beer.