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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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Round boy really needs to stay in his lane.
If there is another pandemic we know what all Democrats will do: Tyranny, oppression, ignoring of the Constitution and stealing elections. But this time the citizens may respond with Molotov cocktails, rifles and pitchforks.
I don’t think the lazy, self centered, me,me,me people who seem to believe everything they hear on CNN will do anything of the sort. They will follow like sheep.
I don’t believe that he was talking about CNN viewers.
This was between eating his second large stuffed pizza pie from Genos.
Was he listening to experts when he was protesting? How about when his family used their various vacation homes to subvert his own mandates? Much of the “science” touted during that time has now been debunked as political science. Unfortunately, the peer reviewed studies don’t get the same airtime from the media as things such as the “racoon dog” theory shared by China which circulated 2 days on local and national news, mindboggling.