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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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Can we add a simple word in parentheses after “care” (mutilation)?
Just call it mutilation, no need to ever accept the Democrat’s wording for anything they do.
LOL the trajectory of the country is to prohibit child genital mutilation, yet regressive IL is looking backwards at truly barbaric and uncivilized practices, and keeping them. The preachers in the south used to say all kinds of crazy things like God wanted slavery to justify their abhorrent morality; but the mood of the country and the world was against them. History will judge IL harshly as corrupt and morally degenerate for continuing the farce and barbarism that is transgenderism. The world is changing quickly, especially in Europe, and it’s not in favor of mutilating children to satisfy the gender… Read more »