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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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LOL, progressive morons want to disrupt 200 years of diplomacy to reward a country that pointed nuclear missiles at our major cities.
These foreigner representatives are traitors to the United States. If you hate it so much here, go back home.
Yeah, this is the pressing issue of the day for these clowns. Not crime, illegal aliens, high inflation, or shitty schools. I am sure their constituents are pleased.
They are. Fake American citizen and anchor baby Delia Ramirez won her district 69 to 31. That’s more than 2 to 1. The progressives in the district LOVE her progressive politics.