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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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Does this mean “To Kill a Mockingbird” will be freely available? What about Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone With the Wind?”
The politicians and governor of this state are a disgusting bunch in all facets.
It’s ok if they remove Dr Seuss books but not sexually graphic books, got it.
Parents who don’t want pornography in their libraries are just like Proud Boys, according to our Secretary of State. He purposely associates parents trying to raise children free from degenerate filth as far right extremists and Proud Boys.
Don’t you love IL? How long before they put good, normal people like us in camps?
Giannoulias said the Illinois Library System Act “comes after extremist groups — including the far-right nationalist group, the Proud Boys — have targeted Illinois libraries, divided communities and harassed librarians across the country, even though the books are not required reading for anyone.”