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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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Amazing how Naperville changes its tune when it’s on their doorstep!! Keep voting for this garbage
Apparently this middle school boy has been running this season in girls races and it went largely without comment until the conference meet. Naperville has been voting more Dem and this will continue to happen until they say no to progressive thinking. I hope this is the wake up call they needed because this guy will be in high school soon and the girls in this state will be impacted immediately if this is allowed. It isn’t one school anymore, this will reach every school in a conference and IHSA playoffs/finals. I don’t have alot of faith the elected leaders… Read more »
The nutjob left continues to cling to this boys-are-girls idiocy. Please, leftist nutjobs. Keep it up and keep losing elections for the next 200 years. What next from these clowns: 2+2 =5? War is peace? Ignorance is Slavery? Four legs good; two legs bad? You just can’t fictionally make-up how absurdly irrational and foolish these left wing nutjobs will take their silly positions.
They don’t know if a child is a boy or a girl until the child tells them, but they absolutely know an adult is a racist/sexist/homophobe just by how he votes. This makes them geniuses.