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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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Wow, inconceivable, they haven’t achieved enough crime yet in Oak Park. They still want more!
Fixed the headline for you:
“WOKE NONSENSE ALERT: First, Far Left Tinfoil Hat Whack Jobs On The Evanston City Council Set Up A Reparations Robbery Racket — Which Taxes 2021 Residents For Pre-1865 Slavery — The Equally Goofy People’s Republic Of Oak Park Is Ready To Do The Same – Crain’s Chicago Business”
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We thought about about buying a house there 10 years ago for the proximity to downtown and historic charm but this was when they shut down the white guy at a city council meeting saying white males dont get to speak. Then they took down the amazing WPA murals that depicted life in Oak Park in 1930 because there were no POC in them, nevemind there were probably no POC in Oak Park in 1930. My wife and I said these people are insane and it’s forever off our list of places to live and even visit. Spending money there… Read more »
The SJWs of Oak Park don’t need your money. They’re some of the most prominent and richest residents in the county, and they work for the largest businesses and professional law firms. Even our State Senate President lives in Oak Park in a large, fancy house. His wife, is the managing partner of Sidley’s Chicago office and a partner in the firm’s Global Finance practice area, focusing on financial transactions and commercial law. For those who aren’t familiar with Sidley, it is the 11th largest law firm in the country with 1,800 attorneys. It has global revenue of $2.5 Billion… Read more »
Disparities are a matter of class, not race. Disparities are a matter of educational achievement, not race. Look at Chicago’s political and business leaders: plenty of POC representation, plenty of black folks sitting at the table. Plenty of struggling white working-class folks in Rust Belt Midwest to extinguish merit of “race is only issue” regarding wealth gaps here in America. Let’s have John Rodgers and Melody Hodges discuss reparations in regards to their own personal stories. Easy to spend community monies. Harder when these “equity” issues come home to your own household upheavals. These same virtue-signaling Oak Park SJW white-collar… Read more »
Virtue signaling like Evanston. Why not invite Them into your home for some mitigation.