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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 solution is simple. Put them all on the next flight back to Caracas!
Illegal aliens are stealing resources from citizens.
If you think POC areas are underinvested/underserved, wait until the full wave of over 3 million illegal aliens find their way across the country.
Sanctuary state/sanctuary city? You put out the welcome mat … and you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Thank you, Joe Biden, JB Pritzger Lori Lightfoot, Tony Preckwinkle, Kim Fox, Tim Evans, Dart, and the whole Springfield crew, for the damage your policies have done to a once great country/city/state.
Its upwards of 5,000,000 and shows no signs of slowing down. Yes, senior citizens mostly vote Red and they are dying off. Biden’s plan is to replace those dying off boomers with younger, latinks voters by giving all the illegal immigrants amnesty the next time they have more than 51 votes in the senate and they control the house. They want to turn the country blue for the rest of the century.
Oh the country will be blue alright. Once everything collapses everyone will be blue.
Migrants should only designate birds. Think migratory birds and you’ll be on thr right track.
The Slum Times can substitute “Public Charge” in their “journalism.”