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At heart is a struggle between Johnson’s firebrand origins and the reality of legislating with 50 different aldermen — and egos — whose votes he needs to enact many of his plans.
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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HE LIED
Please do not start complaining about “ Zippy “, he will start shaking and screaming
About being a black man. You will give the
Man the “vapors” and cause him undo
Stress.
Poor, poor Zippy.
He is but a microcosm of Dem leadership across the country. Think about it: Biden. Harris. Newsome. Pritzger. Whitmer. Hochul. Foxx. Adams. Wolz. The list is very long on people that are really quite useless, delusional and are determined to turn America into a third world nation.
The list you provide is indeed long. I like to add . Brandon and Taxwinkle to the
list or as I like to call it ” The usual gang of idiots “. They will not rest until the
Titanic goes down, water is now lapping at the gunwales..