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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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Warren is the kiss of death for civilization.
Let’s go Brandon!
Don’t be fooled, the Johnson/ CTU campaign is essentially a national progressive campaign. I believe the guy running things behind the scene is Bill Neidhardt (Left Flank Strategies) who was big in the deBlasio admin as well as working for Sanders. Looks like the Johnson/CTU stratagy is to get the national progressive endorsements of Warren, Sanders, AOC, etc because that’s what their Milwaukee ave corridor/ Hyde park hippster base really cares about–VIRTUE SIGNALLING!! using low income black & brown folks and painting Vallas as a evil closet DeSantis/ Griffin racist, sexist, etc follower is just part of the show. low… Read more »
Well. that should be the nail in the coffin of CTU stooge Johnson. Whoever Fauxcahontas supports, everyone who works for a living should reject.
It’s hard to think of a bigger waste of oxygen than old Lizzy “Lieawatha” Warren. She is incapable of speaking in anything but a shrill, screeching rant, and like King Pritzker, she is a liberal elitist of the highest order. She should take up hot air ballooning near high tension wires.
So, just one more good reason not to vote for the socialist.
When your biggest endorsement is a serial racial identity fraudster, you know you are a phony