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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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Every state run park and fishing lakes in Illinois suck there filthy, garbage all over under stocked lakes and so on.
People need to go to Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri and other states because Illinois has no use for you here.
We don’t want visitors or tourism. Just ain’t got time for it.
People want to sit home on their sofa’s sucking down government food stamps and free cash baby. What do you think this is?
Camping outside of Northeast IL ain’t so bad. I’ve been to a few. Apple River Canyon is a pretty cool place, quiet, large open campsites, not crowded, compact site, very little DNR presence. Shawnee downstate is amazing, but is federal. The downstate lakes are great, like Rend land and lake of Egypt. Better than IN facilitates, but a full step below WI properties.