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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’m really proud of my community who stood up for those who need to be defended and protected,”
— Noted Illinois Political Animal Pinhead Robert Morgan
Except they didn’t stand up for those who needed to be defended, Bob. Those girls needed someone to stop the adult perverts and no one did, Bob. Now your constituents are going to have to pony up to settle the inevitable lawsuits that will result from this.
Speaking of which, you just slandered the girls, Bob. Best lawyer up yourself. At least the taxpayers won’t have to subsidize your stupidity this time.
Why are Dems against biological women’s rights?
Too bad Jones didn’t save some of his “ mind your own business “ vitriol for the activists standing in back heckling the lady from behind their cowardly masks. They probably don’t even have children, much less any that attend the school.