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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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This person is an actress, whether or not she chooses to accept the title is irrelevant. The facts are the facts.
Also…Aurelio’s started in Homewood. They’re still there. The Homewood location is still the best of that brand.
Why not stop in over by Sibley and Halsted? A true microcosm of Illinois right there.
Funny that Jane didn’t visit beautiful Dolton or hang out at her old alma mater Thornridge High School. She also mentioned Aurelio’s Pizza, but placed it in Chicago Heights, when in fact the original location she would have visited back then is in Homewood.
Ah come on Pritzker paid her handsomely, I mean the taxpayers of Illinois
A flaming liberal that feels right at home in a state burden by debt and where social justice warriors continue their destruction unabated. Not much of a surprise.