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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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Our ancestors weep.
What kind of society promotes and elevates the killing of their unborn?
If abortions were forced on a population there would be a fast and passionate outcry – call it an unfettered ‘right’ and it’s wonderful … killing the unborn.
What an indictment of the morals of our society.
JB won’t rest until every woman of childbearing age has at least one abortion. Then he’ll transition and try to have one herself.
Some day, in my lifetime, abortion will be viewed on the same level of moral abomination as slavery. JB Pritzker is on the wrong side of history.