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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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Burr Ridge is exactly the sort of place that illegals should be bussed to. These rich virtue signaling fools think that their choices in voting will never come back to affect them. Well, it is time to show them that it will.
Dear Nostra…, jealousy is said to be a sin, and its in full display in your remarks.
Burr Ridge mayor Grasso’s a Republican