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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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Someone needs to take the state to court to create legitimate district map that represents citizens, not Democrats. Where I live I have no representation
……..”citizens, not Democrats.” Somehow that makes sense to you?
Well, meantime I have reread your remark and now understand what you were saying. Yes, I get that point of view and consequently you need not take any time responding to my earlier remark.