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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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So, if I understand correct, he made an outlandish comment about muslims practicing Sharia law, and this is somehow grounds for removal?
Does anyone else find it ironic that the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois wants to cancel a man for exercising his civil liberty of freedom of speech?
No wonder the ACLU has been irrevelant for years.
Believe this media at your own risk!
These community groups want him out because he’s too hard on crime. Lori is also behind him going so she can manipulate the police contract and give more money to her political patronage groups and the CTU bloodsuckers.