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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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We don’t need no mitigations
We don’t need no thought control
Hey! J.B.! Leave us serfs alone!
–with apologies to Pink Floyd
Pritzker, stop trying to take away are civil liberties.
He’s been watching his commercial too much and believes he’s the great hero in all this. Sadly, I know waaaay too many people that think he is too 🙁
Talk about a bunch of W$H!T 5 (Chicago) !!!
Push Back people. Do not comply.
Exactly stand up to this tyrant if Springfield legislators won’t, be heard loud and clear everyone.
The left’s ability to control a virus will be as effective as it’s ability to control climate.
Funny how both require you ceding your rights, livelihoods, and bodies to their impositions.