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The proposed Obama Center in Chicago has become a towering welter of lawsuits and other issues.
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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Nobody in the know still calls it the Obama Presidential Library . There wil be no books .
It s a BLM personality cult temple – something a bad Roman Emperor line Nero or Caligula would build or an African dictator like Idi Amin or Robert Mugabe’s cronies would build fir themselves .
Lets start with it never should have been allowed to be built on a public park.
No gentrification my a….
The Pharaoh stole the land to build his monument to himself, but the slaves are revolting and he can’t do anything about that.
The only good use I can think of for this Chinese carry out carton would be to house illegals.
Whose going to do the morning call to worship now?
It’s difficult to build an outhouse that big