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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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I am guessing that it wasn’t white supremacists doing the heckling.
Oh No! Natives are concerned that illegal immigrants invading their community are usurping scare resources, overcrowding schools, driving up rent, taking jobs and changing the very nature of the neighborhood in ways where the natives can’t even communicate with newcomers. “THIS IS RACIST ANTI-IMMIGRANT RHETORIC, SHUT UP AND TAKE IT”
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