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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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Well since Kamala wouldn’t go to the border, it looks like the border is coming to her. Enjoy the show!
It would be pretty amazing to have tens of thousands of migrants milling around the convention area.
The elites who support the Democrats are not generally impacted by migrants. I would be willing to bet that Pritzker and Johnson “find” the money to hide the migrants away from the cameras covering the convention.
Abortion, TRUMP, Democracy in peril! That will scare the shit out of them so they comply.
I’ll donate for a surge, where do we send money for buses from Texas?