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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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Democrats are filth, the devil’s spawn.
Even California is looking into the BLM crowd but in Illinois they get handed money.
The California Department of Justice has threatened to hold the leaders of Black Lives Matter personally liable if they fail to fork over information about the charity’s $60 million bankroll within the next 60 days
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/california-threatens-to-hold-blms-leaders-personally-liable-over-missing-financial-records
Toilet change
GET EVERY. PENNY. BACK!
JB, you keep finding more ways to look like a super-duper, great candidate.
King Pritzker is not a good judge of character. I wonder where the $300,000 went?
Went for bricks,and clubs for smashing,sort of a smaller version of Biden giving the taliban blackhawks,and machine guns
They must not have received their Khan Cullors cut. Out into the streets they’ll go. Heartbreaking.
Of course he did.
“Leader of community-activist organization” has become attractive low-threshold high-paying “executive” career for savvy folks otherwise unable to ever climb corporate ladder to upper-management salary-scales. Look at those BLM-organizer millionaires with their flash houses.
Don’t forget the newly created “culture” and DEI roles…
We live in a clown world.
We could have some use out of this IF we had the proper focus and the correct attitude about it. I even propose we repeat this same train-wreck, but… We need to do this on a much smaller scale, such as one city block at a time. The we can trip one of these so called “community leaders” after the other, and the next, and the next – fully documented, published, by the thousands and thousands of corruption, inept management, lack of interest – by all types of failures. Because in effect this IS what we do, in every inner… Read more »