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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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Now that’s interesting. Let’s put illegals to work fishing for carp. Then we can require people on EBT cards to purchase 1 carp per week to supplement their otherwise poor food choices. This is a real democratic party progressive 3 fer.
If the IDHS needs any more free nutrition advice just contact Mark and he’ll forward Old Joe’s email!
That’s ‘Copi’ to you, ‘Copi’ because Asian Carp is racist, or something.