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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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JB loves calling Trump names almost as much as he loves a late term abortion. Almost. Nothing turns JB on more than killing a baby in the 9th month.
I thought fat people were supposed to be jolly!
JBs time is up when Trump returns. Hyatt Hotels is not an innocent enterprise regarding human trafficking. I believe he is acting as a Judas Goat to highlight the ills of Progressive policies as part of his offered exit strategy……
Trump isn’t alone in being called names by the kid that never got chose to play team sports. Governor XXXL has no problem hurling epithets at any and all that don’t buy into his nonsense.