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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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Mayor Cliff Notes, I remember Harold Washington.
You’re no Harold Washington.
Or the great Harold Baines.
Not even Harold’s Chicken Shack.
The only ‘Harold’ you might be is the herald of disaster for Chicago.
Hmmmm……Does BJ wear a dress like Harold did? Remember the City Council frantic outrage and tyrannical censorship at the art institute kid who dared to feature their sacred messiah in a painting wearing a dress?
“Johnson likens himself to second coming of Harold Washington” I can’t wait to see a painting of Mayor Brando Johnson is panties and garters like his hero Harold Washington!
Hey BJ, you forgot Willie Wilson.
Somebody please give Brandon Johnson the bad news. He ain’t no Harold Washington and never will be!
To “stand on the shoulders” is not to equate same stature.
Brandon Johnson is another functionally-illiterate CPS teacher, with scant political experience as a former county board member handpicked by Preckwinkle. He prides himself as a CPS teacher who rarely assigned homework, stating he focused on “student self-esteem”. Wonder how many of his former students can read, write, and do math at 8th grade level
Based upon what I read I am not sure Johnson “can read, write, and do math at 8th grade level” himself much less teach it.
What will Brandon do about abortions? He mentions repopulate in the West and South sides but Illinois does not allow statistics for abortions by race. Look at the chart to see how many more abortions occurred in 2023 than 2022.
https://dph.illinois.gov/data-statistics/vital-statistics/abortion-statistics.html
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2022/5/30/23147465/illinois-abortion-data-collection-race-ethnicity-roe-wade-supreme-court-health-care-disparities-wbez
So sad Fred. Some day we’ll look on millions of aborted black kids like we do about the Holocaust.
Abortion is baby murder, of course, but I’m just sick and tired of fighting Democrats over it. I tell Democrats to their face that it pleases me to know they are killing their progeny, nearly all of whom will be trans or Democrat. I tell them that the world becomes a better place with fewer trans and Democrats in it and they should abort as many of their children as they can, so that Republicans can have lots of children and repopulate the country without the need for more third-world immigrants (of all races, colors or creeds).