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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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Centrist Democrats?
Extinct for over 50 years now.
Center Democrats need to wake up. They are destroying far left socialists are trying to take over the Democratic Party. Vote for centered Democrats, not the far left socialist/ communists if you value your freedoms.
Key, Durbin is not running, the key point of Democrats are idiots and he doesn’t have to stand with them anymore.
Dicky Durbin crossing da line but he is done anyway.
Nothing left for Dems to do but bitch and cry like they do anyway!!