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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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Of course not. Just like war mongers like Niki Haley, Joe Biden, Lindsey Graham, etc. will send our kids to war in a heartbeat, but not theirs. Elites don’t use public schools, transport, or fight.
CTA’s last-millennium transportation model is obsolete — as a crime ridden, piss and shit-stinking, drug infested, chaos breeding embarrassment, it needs to be scrapped
Question is now moot. Mayor Johnson’s kids have CPD SUV car-service.
Welcome back John. We’ve missed your voice.
Sure, just like the Obama girls attended the Washington, DC public school.
The neighborhood CPS schools aren’t good enough for CTU/Brandon. His kids go to selective elroment & magnate CPS schools outside Austin (Hyde Park & Portage Park), so they have to be getting to and from somehow?
Security detail will chauffer them around like all kids of mayors in Chicago.
Of course he would ( and with a personal bodyguard or two )
It’s starting to look suicioudly like there is a deadline for completely destroying the city. Maybe the Dems think their power won’t last forever and want the carcass as a testament to what they can do! And Arbuckle is all for it, and a round of raises for everyone, talk sboutb buying loyalty