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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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Awww, The Duck was disappointed. We are disappointed and ashamed that you have done nothing for the people of this state, but sow fear and telling us who to blame for it. Get out and let someone do the actual job.
Pathetic puff piece, which is so typical of Chicago Magazine.
It’s called support, Duckworthless. That’s what the absence of ‘resistance’ is. You and your party are wedded to issues polling at 20% or less and wonder why few but the most stridently leftist are showing their support for your feeble resistance. Support is also what your party does not possess, despite the DNC media complex doing its usual propagandizing. It isn’t working like it did back in 2017. That’s the lack of support called readership and viewers that the media has alienated with their biased reporting. No one is consuming DNC talking points like the once did. Witness the impending… Read more »
Vote her out. She has done nothing for IL residents.
Using F bombs does not make you look tough Tammy, it makes you look like an uneducated simpleton.
Hey Tammy, go fly a f- ing plane on a f-ing one way flight and do everyone a favor.
Foul mouth wheelchair mom with a very young child, should not even be working.
She should be home nursing and learning not to use profanity at all. We all know what a undesirable foul mouth horrible creature she has become. She should be fired, like workers can be for the spoken filth they spew at work! 😮
Foul-mouthed harridan.