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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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The republicans are silent, good job at least you gave yourself a pay raise. come on everyone keep voting these people in office
Soon JB will send out one of his personal chauffeurs to drive women seeking abortions to the nearest clinic. There’s nothing JB enjoys more than killing a baby in the womb. He absolutely gushes every time he talks about abortion. I wonder if he will ultimately transition so he can claim he got an abortion. He would certainly be proud!
Maybe his affinity for abortion and transgenderism has something to do with having grown up in an extremely dysfunctional family?
He’s anti-human. He doesn’t share your values. He’s not like you or I.
Are you sure he is not also his cousin? Clark Kent and Superman are never seen together but they are neither one of these characters. LOL?
Abortion, gambling, pot, crime … IL has so much to be proud of.
Well Mary, I’m still counting on legalized prostitution. Let’s put those Venezuelean girls to work doing the jobs that American girls won’t do.
Illinois has become Pottersville.
Maybe the Gov’s long term goal is to eliminate all future students.