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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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Abortions in IL will only increase moderately as women in other states just decide to have their babies instead. The pro Moloch hyperbolic abortion rhetoric is just that.
Since life has become cheap in Chicago I suggest that JB and Lori market this comparative advantage.
Add some life to Soldier Field by repurposing it into the Taj Mahal of abortion mills.
Fly in in the morning, get some reproductive health care and fly out in the afternoon.
No fetus will beat us….