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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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The real justice here is that Juicy’s career is over. For the next two decades Juicy will only appear on reality TV shows and for joke cameo appearances. He’d better stretch the residuals of his brief TV series and maybe ask for a refund from the Osundiaro Brothers.
J.S’s connection to BHO is what got him the favorable ruling, nothing else…
As it was decided from the beginning that Rittenhouse was a white supremacist, so it was decided that Jussie was the victim of a hate crime by the same MSM.
This episode was peak Chicago racial politics. Celebrity chasing states attorney gives D list actor “the treatment” while ignoring real and serious crime for her 8 years in office. Obama’s intone from the Hamptons. Local TV news covered this “hate crime” as serious news (yet barely covers Michigan Ave mobs and street takeovers and mass shootings). I ran into Gerry McCarthy while he was campaigning for mayor and asked him how many milliseconds it took for detectives to realize it was a hoax. He said two. “This is Maga country”? No, this is the usual.