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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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Defund NPR and WBEZ. It’s enough that we see abject bias on the commercial stations without spending tax dollars to disseminate leftist propaganda.
I couldn’t imagine my grandmother in public with a purse like that. Democrats are the real garbage.
I’m seeing more articles calling illegal immigrants simply immigrants. Nice try.
Boo hoo grandma! Resistance is futile.
Mamaws purse graphic sums up the classy nature of the Democratic Party.
I think a lot of these older woke women are retired teachers. They are some of the worst.