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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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.
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isn’t trump posting an AI pic of him depicted as jesus healing someone considered blasphemy?
btw, for those insulting pritzkers weight, how do you feel about trumps blob like physique?
Pritzker has made IL the abortion capital of the Midwest. He has also signed the assisted suicide bill that both the Pope and Cardinal Cupich asked him not to sign. Met the Pope for a photo op and goes home and totally ignores the Pope’s plea. What a two face. Praise the Pope on one hand but defy every basic Catholic principle on the other without a shred of irony.
Nicely slimed out, JB the Hutt.
Now let’s talk to Pope Leo about abortion tourism.