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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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I can’t wait for the eventual day the leftists finally lose Cook County and Chicago and all the names of politicians finally stripped from our infrastructure for good and the virtue signaling do gooders who renamed our beloved streets and parks can watch as we restore the rightful, proper names sans political overtones. Circle Interchange, Congress Parkway, Highways with numbers, Lake Shore Drive, taking down all the ridiculous 2nd and 3rd names from every street sign. Imagine the sanity we could have. The only places in the world that so thoroughly and energetically rename public assets like IL politicians are… Read more »
Typical Dem maneuver. No matter what else a person may have done in their lifetime of public service, seize upon something you don’t like and erase all memory of them in the Soviet fashion. Lincoln, Grant etc. no one is safe from the progressive communists.
Conroy is a Pritzker puppet – both are extreme. I’m sure Pritzker wanted this petty, near meaningless act to stir up abortion divisions.
I know Hyde had baggage, but the main reasons he’s being cancelled in Illinois are: 1. he was an older, white male (aka, he had three boxes checked to be a future cancel candidate), and 2. too many years have passed, so many people don’t know who he was.
=https://opinion-images.wsj.net/im-94414691/?size=1.5If you think the end of the Biden Administration means the end of cancel culture, alas, no.=
If you think Dupage is county is not liberal, you have not been paying attention