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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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Immigrant communities are not on edge, but communities of illegal aliens are.
Comrademan Chuy needs to wake up and smell the coffee re the fact the deportations have only just begun after the last four years of a free for all called the Biden presidency. Keep pushing your false information that ICE can’t go anywhere they want anytime they want to arrest criminal illegals.
“We need to be swift and bold in our defense of our community,” Congressman Chuy Garcia said.” – defense of our community??? How is protecting violent criminals part of protecting his community? How is defunding the police part of defending his community? He should be protecting citizens and legal immigrants from predators.