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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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Believe nothing this “doctor” has to say. She is more an actress than any medical person.
Lard Boy just wants an excuse to keep Illinois from fully opening up.
There are few vaccine opportunities in the collar counties which defeated JB’s “fair tax”. He is a petty person who is fine with taking revenge, as long as he is doing the taking. A terrible leader, and a terrible governor.
JB is a petty tyrant. In any other era, our billionaire gov. would be a weak duchy of a minor fiefdom in some backwater kingdom in Europe, known for nothing more than his legendary avarice, gluttony and cruelty towards peasants and those of a differing religion (his progressive belief system that substitutes for religion)! It’s truly a shame that the State of IL elected this gluttonous, petty and cruel leader.
This is what “devotion of much time and thought” looks like? Seems pretty clear what they were thinking about, and it wasn’t how best to inoculate the most at-risk people.
Just one question to everyone, why isn’t this state fully opened up Pritzker. Game over mister