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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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Trump worked for the people that politicians forgot about!! Of course they are going to speak poorly of him……..he opened a lot of voters eyes as to what the politicians have been doing to the people for years………robbing them! He threatens their bread and butter with the truth.
U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky . Wasn’t her husband Robert Creamer the one who helped organize all the violence at Trump rallies? Why doesn’t anyone ever mention that?
Yes he is; thanks for pointing it out. He’s also a convicted felon who went to prison for check fraud. https://www.influencewatch.org/person/robert-creamer/
The Sun-Times reported that he visited the White House 340 times since Obama took office.
https://heavy.com/news/2016/10/robert-creamer-bob-white-house-video-barack-obama-dnc-voter-fraud-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-democracy-partner-wife/