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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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I read this article’s headline in the Sunday Tribune as I lined the bottom of my parakeet’s cage with the paper. I’ve trained the bird to look down and say “BS” whenever I ask it, “What’s in the news, Governor?”. Guests think it’s hilarious!
There’s that poor illegal dem slanted story by a rag whose journalistic creditability is zilch .
They are not immigrants. They are illegals. Their temporary protective status has ended.
Their legal path seemed to be to break into the US first, and ask for forgiveness later. There certainly is an argument that Biden wasn’t even aware of what day it was, let alone what was going on with those work permits. Even more amazing is how they can barely speak english, yet illegals know that they want a lawyer – as if they are an actual US citizen or here under valid credentials. Hopefully the decrease in the crime rate after this makes the news – as well as a huge thank you to the men and women trying… Read more »
This article is hogwash. Biden issued work permits to Venezuelans who entered illegally, and granted them temporary protection from deportation. They still entered illegally (aside from a few who entered under a small sponsorship program). And as for asylum claims, almost all of them are bunk. Finally, anybody who entered illegally after Trump was first elected in 2018 knew the days of free entry were over.