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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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Ridiculous. All started by Sophia King and the Grant Park Advisory council who took down the Columbus statues because the domestic terrorist Marxist organization blm and antifa demanded it. Since then crime has skyrocketed.
Lake Shore drive (LSD) has international recognition and the name is non-confrontational, even pleasant. Dusable already has his name on a museum and a high school. Thank you politicians, media and activists, all that’s left is universal animosity, race wars and declining quality of life for everybody.
Saint George Floyd Drive sounds better
Rename it Highway to Hell.
How many of them have ever even heard of Jean Baptiste Point DuSable? But that doesn’t matter to the elites pushing this.
BIPOC seek to rename and remake every landmark, edifice and monument of the former white inhabitants of Chicago. Even streets with unoffensive names like “Lake Shore Drive” will not be spared. In fact, they will be targeted. Remember, Istanbul used to be called Constantinople. It’s not good, or bad. It is what it is.