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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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This fascist wants to remove all checks and balances in order to concentrate power in the hands of him and his fellow fascist Democrats. Casten, like Hitler and Stalin, wants a government and society that is unable to oppose anything he and his fascist ilk want
Sean thinks the will of the people is what Democrats like him want…LOL. Sorry buddy, in 2022, Democrats lost the national popular vote..
Trump lost the popular vote in 2016 and 2020 as well as the electoral vote in 2020.