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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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Fully Expects? Hmm….Sounds like it’s not her decision, or waiting for guidance from above.
Returned after being painted black and holding a cabin boy’s hand.
Ms. Lightfoot’s war on historic figures should be the topic, not the reinstallation of a single statue.
Erasing history is a mistake; where else can we learn about what has happened before? Sad.
Istanbul used to be called Constantinople, and the Hagia Sophia was a cathedral before it was converted into a mosque. Lori and her progressives don’t see your history as their history, just as the Turks didn’t adopt any of the Byzantine’s former residents or history either. But they’ll take your land, your wealth, your institutions, they just have no use for YOU or YOUR history. Ironically, the expulsion/migration of the non-Turks out of Istanbul supercharged the burgeoning Renaissance as the refugees brought with them hundreds of thousands of ancient and classical texts to Europe for the printing presses to print… Read more »
Thanks for the history lesson and application – I knew the Hagia Sophia story, but didn’t apply it to the invading Wokes. History repeats itself.
I believe we, the awake but not woke, represent the majority of Americans. Guess we’ll have an indication in November.