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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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it is also unheard of for legal citizens to be arrested & deported without due process which seems to be an almost daily occurrence
No, has not happened with legal citizens.
Earthling please report back to earth with Marvin the Martian aka Brandon
Brainwashing is strong with that one, so sad that so many drink the kool aide
Don’t look now carbon based unit, but ICE just nabbed two more Tren de Agua members for gun and drug dealing. That makes at least five in CHI alone.
And SloJoe was competent, received 82 million votes, Hunter biden was innocent, Obammy wasn’t born in Kenya. Yep, you’re a winner.