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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 great replacement is real but they are replacing Democrat loyal black voters with loyal Democrat hispanic voters. The demographic of the new voters are much less shooty and murdery, and also a little less demanding of welfare benefits. The migrants aren’t moving into my neighborhood but they’re taking over black neighborhoods in Chicago! And if the black voters being replaced don’t like it, what they gonna do about it? Demand accountability from their one-party state elected leaders? LOL. Will they vote Republican? Not after they discover the Republican platform on abortion, affirmative action and welfare benefits! The black community… Read more »
Did you hear the statement that Michelle and Barack Obama put out about the burden that sanctuary status puts on Chicagoans, in particular, black Chicagoans? Me Either!
Lend a hand ? They are the one’s causing this mess. Do you really think Biden is running the country ? We are gloriously in the midst of the 3rd Obama term, and once Mike runs, it could be terms 4 and 5.
If Barry is really interested in helping migrants, he should open up his mansion on Martha’s Vineyard to them. I seem to remember migrants being transported out of there quickly and quietly when they showed up the last time. C’mon Barry, step up.
How many activists does society need?
To encourage activism is to encourage unrest, division, and victimhood.
Less activists… more people who marry, work to support their families and raise healthy, well-adjusted, thoughtful, educated adults.
Community activist = loser
Unfortunately, “community organizing” does not mean what the letter writer thinks it means. The point of organizing is only to protest and claim victimhood. Actually helping anyone is not part of the mission. They are the victims, remember?
Obama’s greatest accomplishment in Hyde Park was leaving.
And exposing it:)