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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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Chicago Diocese expends considerable energy and monies on progressive causes unrelated to the spiritual welfare of its Catholic congregations. No wonder Sunday Mass attendance has dropped dramatically in past decades, and parishioner contributions significantly reduced as well. Chicago Diocese administration is a political action committee.
Follow the money.
This story is really about which people with clout close to the mayor, county president and governor are getting paid. The Chicago Way.
“The Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago has space in more than 60 shuttered churches, schools and other buildings listed for sale or for lease,”
The Catholic Church has only itself to blame for it’s demise, and with that demise, will be the City of Chicago shortly after. If they would have fought the dogma of: Separation of Church and State, they would both be thriving.
What happened is that the state merged with a new church: the church of Globohomo, where your children pray to the transflag, they are infused with metaphysical gnosis of ‘gender’, and are indoctrinated in anti-racism. So yeah, I’d much rather have the old religion instead of the new one. But as the bible and Jesus repeatedly said, the world will always hate him and hate his followers. 2,000 years later, it still rings true.
Reports about Catholic Charities present strong evidence that they are willfully and purposely facilitating and participating in the illegal invasion of our country through the southern border. Our laws say only political asylum seekers can be considered. Others must go through the legal immigration process our Catholic ancestors went through in decades past. But today Catholic Charities says no, and enables people migrating because they heard of free handouts to enter illegally, and abuse the welfare system set up to help our citizens. All done in a very sneaky manner. Catholic Charities seems to get virtually all its funding from… Read more »
As a matter of public record, CC had over 2M in PPP “ loans “ forgiven.
The published annual report for Catholic Charities of Chicago showed they received $142 million of government fees and grants in 2023.
Had no idea about that. Too bad such a generous agenda towards the plight of others wasn’t expressed towards Jewish people and others trying to escape Europe in the ‘30s and ‘40s.
…….. TOTALLY WELL SAID……