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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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She was out on the west side over the holliday dishen out the census outreach $ pay-o-la $ https://chicagocitywire.com/stories/520636869-austin-chamber-of-commerce-west-side-gets-2-3m-in-census-outreach-funds. Guess its her or madigans right hand man harmon to replace cullerton,,,either way the voter has no say and are screwed as usual
This just shows that she obviously has the qualifications and experience for the position
Color me astonished.
A black woman, whose “husband” was hired as a “DIVERSITY CONSULTANT,” is associated with political corruption.
Has anyone ever been to Baltimore? Selma? Any other city run largely by people of mostly African ancestry? Why is it I can point out that Tammany Hall corruption came to America from Ireland, but the endemic corruption of places run by those of African ancestry is untouchable?
What do we learn about those who we’re not allowed to criticize?