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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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I’m just wondering if “ pretrial services “ is newspeak for the coaching of defendants as to how to turn their arrest into a lawsuit, as one of Fox’s office staff was in charge of a company that specializes in how to do so? Under the guise of working in the prosecutors office, they were found to be actively engaged in helping criminals persue legal action for profit.
Another way for Democratic voter fraud
This state will never come back unless we rid ourselves of this kind of leadership……….pls vote RED
“One provision codifies nursing home voters with the ability to cast ballots through vote-by-mail procedures. ”
I’ve been in nursing home. Those people ain’t voting. The staff is voting for them straight Democrat.
Sure glad they didn’t affect the things on the list