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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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You know what else never changes? Truancy from school, a lack of motivation to learn while there, a decent, useful curriculum and engaged parents ( plural). Without those components, you will remain government dependent sheep, no matter who is in power. A healthy dose of self- responsibility and less perpetually aggrieved enabling are also in order.
Be careful, there are chains in both parties. Right now, the Republicans are a cult of personality.
LOL! But Kamala is so brat!
We can hear the clinks of your links. There is nothing real about Kamala or her appointment as candidate. Even her inappropriate cackle is a coping device. She can’t give a straight answer to even simple questions. You side with the empty suit who didn’t bother to even read the Cliff’s Notes. We already know what President Trump was like as President. For those who still trust the corporate media, that’d be far better than Biden/Harris. You can keep your foreign wars, ANTIFA thugs, economic insanity, climate religion, EV mandates, DOJ persecutions. As one of Grifter Joe’s pieces of “trash”… Read more »