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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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Defy this individual at all cost or this will never end, again bombard your local state representative if you still have one, and most of all Pritzker, give them hell in a polite manner get your point across as to how you feel, this must end.
Mask mandates are annoying, inconvenient, and not helpful.
Vaccine mandates are another topic altogether; they violate personal autonomy.
PERSONAL CHOICE on both topics!
Hey JB, why don’t you mandate the everyone had to get within a healthy weight range – lose the obesity…..I’ll hold your beer and drumstick
No one should be listening to medical advice from a morbidly obese politician. It’s OK to defy the governor.
Stop the mandates! Let people and their families choose!