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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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LOL he’s not sending migrants to LA they already have enough. He’s sending them to Denver which is not a black city.
“This is a quintessential example of how a white individual and his [iniquitous behavior] is trying to cause chaos in my city.”
Abbot is also in a wheelchair, so maybe it is how a “handicapped individual…”.
Keep playing the race card.
You racist pos
Chicago 2020 Census:
31.4% white
29.8% hispanic
28.7% black
Math is hard.
Yet the city council/ city & county governments racial makeup don’t reflect this. So much for the level playing field of DEI.