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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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The Archdiocese is run by a Marxist Cardinal and staffed with like minded clowns. Getting in bed with a “religion” that wants to eliminate Catholics and all other infidels/non Muslims.
St. Barts: We have no idea what this Jesus guy was all about, even though we have that Bible book he’s mentioned in, all we know is that we are tolerant of the intolerant.
The Catholic Church really dropped the ball
Game on this whole mess. It let the child
Molesters take over the priesthood.
This caused a shortage of priests when it hit the fan. Settlements from suits costs 10’s of millions, parishes closed by the hundreds.
Now lease the property that no one wants
Because Chicago is doing so well and you know the Church will be tapped for some money to support the illegal migrants.
The same migrants that I was told do not
Support the church.
Any one else see a problem here.
I lived one block away from St Bart’s, glad,I moved.