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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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Why? Inquiring minds want to know why. The term NIMBY comes into play, Not In My BackYard. As usual the liberal crowd speaks with forked tongue (politically incorrect term)
Woke DuPage moms are all talk.
Wonder why it was scraped, oh maybe because nobody signed up is my guess, big mouth Karen’s with no interest or intention of taking anybody in.