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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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Oh he knows do you honestly think that he’s going to perjure himself.
Have they not yet learned…?
It’s the *cover-up* rather than the crime that ensnares the corrupt…
I’m glad they have not learned…
This could be a huge mis-step, by someone who believes they are above the law…
Pritzker is not great at denial
Toilets? What Toilets?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jb-pritzkers-toilet-troubles-come-back-haunt-him-runs-president-2024
The world’s largest rat is scurrying.
The Sgt. Schultz defense is not going to work.