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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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If they had the guts,
Employment requirement, Conceal Carry!
Is Burberry the preferred sartorial of the looters? I personally prefer something from Borelli. I wonder if they kick up to Porky? I can just picture him in a Burberry trench coat. He’d look like Goering at his tubbiest has anyone ever observed the governor in a coat?
LEAVE CHICAGO RETAILERS!! DEMS DO NOT CARE FOR YOU!
Wrong!!! The Dems do care. They want the retailers to stay around so that their voters can continue to make undocumented purchases at 100 percent discount..
Nothing says high-class shopping district than two utility vehicles parked outside your glittering designer store. Another face-slap for Chicago residents, thanks to our super-woke politicians rigorously virtue-signaling their CJW crap, like “social justice” molly-coddling for common criminals, being these looters, shoplifters, muggers, and carjackers, rather than legitimately addressing safety concerns of law-abiding tax-paying residents and merchants.
Fully expect Burberrys to get same harassment as Perrillo car dealership on Rush St, and likewise expect Burberrys to announce its departure altogether from Michigan Ave location.
And Mayor Lightfoot promptly sent out revenue agents to write citations for illegal parking.
And put the Denver Boot on them!