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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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Gotta have equity. If residents are falling behind illegals, the only solution is to pay more to residents. Cutting entitlements is a non-starter. Taxpayers: step up and bend over.
Dickie, Dickie, Dickie, please go away.
BTW: please take Ms. Duckworth with you when you go.
Perhaps the two most ignorant and ineffectual politicians around. Both living proof you don’t have to be well-informed or knowledgeable to be in politics.
It never ceases to amaze me how much good a prog wants to do with my money.
Except for citizen-taxpayers.
Thanks for nothing DICK.
Open borders Dick should be letting illegals live in his house
This wind sock continually gets voted back into office by the citizens north of I-80. So who is to blame?
What a Dick. Getting more money from the federal government is a way to go. Certainly that would help cover some of the costs for this…but dude…its still the tax payer paying. Regardless of whether it is Illinois or nationally. This is stupid and illogical to have ever allowed this out of control illegal immigration to take place and to continue it. Ask the feds for help…but it’s still our money being spent on the is stupidity. Yep…shut and sit down peasant, you are not educated enough to understand the big picture…
And there you have it right from the jackasses mouth: Sit down. shut up, and pay up you malcontent citizens – we have illegal aliens to coddle.
You helped create the problem Dick. Use the jaws of life to open that wallet of yours to help the illegals. We’ll wait.