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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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Can we get the Jan 6 group to have a parade thru Evanston. We promise it’ll be mostly peaceful.
Evanston is the Illinois equivalent of Berkeley, CA. It’s a radical, woke, liberal, far-left outpost of lunacy. It’s absurd that Evanston finds it acceptable to have in-person Juneteenth and gay pride celebrations, but not an in-person Fourth of July celebration under the argument that having an in-person Fourth of July celebration would be dangerous due to covid-19. Apparently, according to the left, Juneteenth and gay pride celebrations fall into the same covid immune category that BLM and Antifa riots fall into and Fourth of July celebrations fall into the same “super spreader” category that Trump rallies fall into. Evanston is… Read more »
the Juneteenth and the Pride parade are ok to have, but not the 4th of July because of “covid restrictions”.
So blacks and gays don’t get covid, they’re saying.
utterly sickening
The lawn sign subset fawns heavy guilt trips to hide their bling. I’ll be flying stars and stripes over this little patch of earth.
Evanston has always been a clown show. It’s unsafe and filled with idiotic social justice warriors. They are anti Americans who cater to the domestic terrorist organization blm and antifa. Watch the property values crash.
Is the red hammer and sickle flying over Evanston yet? What a freak show!
This says it all about who these Democraps really are. They are not Americans.