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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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“Shutting a door isn’t a —- crime.”
Thanks for the laughs, Nathan and Mommy! 😀
His mommy trying to save him from a night in the pokey should’ve been arrested too.
Mr Managers bes must have slipped off his man boobs
Call me loony toons, but they should ship these agitators to South Sudan, let them find their own way home.
Speaking of looney, get a load of Elaine Plybon in the Instagram post included in the story.
Then, read this link.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histrionic_personality_disorder
Ooh, that’s good. I am no shrink but that Histrionic Personality Disorder sure seems to be at least part of the psychological problem infecting today’s far left — and it is a psychological problem, IMHO.
HPD is one part of a group of related mental problems referred to as “Cluster B” disorders. Once you familiarize yourself with the Cluster B grouping you’ll never look at the left the same way again.
Read more about it here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_personality_disorders#Cluster_B
It’s the TDS cocktail recipe.
South Chicago would suffice.