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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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Lets name it after Bobby Rush,give new meaning to the saying rush hour.
As the vegetable in the White house is wont to say, “Come on, man, here’s the deal.” Let’s name Interstate 57 the “Obama Carter Biden Expressway To Failure” honoring the three worst presidents that the USA has ever had. Millard Fillmore’s ghost will be proud to move from the number three to the number four spot.
Obama’s backed up again. State police are searching for bullet casings on Obama.
That’s Great. When on your way to visit loved one’s being stored at Marion you can ride proud on the Barack Highway!
I’m offended to have it named after Obama, the most racist, divisive president in US history. He started the racial division in this country and was totally incompetent.
Exactly. And how much have he and Moochelle done to help Chicago? Have they ever proposed even ONE good idea? No.
Michelle’s senior thesis research paper at Princeton was 50 pages of imploring successful blacks to go back to their cities, live there, work there, and try to make a local difference. Talk about a hypocrite. She and Barry win the prize.
Lets name everything after black people,elect more black politicians,and then be told how racist whites are. I know in the back of my mind that all this stuff is a ploy by the left to keep people at odds,divide and conquer plan,and its working,I’m more racist now than ever in my whole life.
I don’t think they even think that far off.
Perhaps public infrastructure should not be named after living, active political figures? This kind of public endorsement of living politicians is unsound. Bobby Rush is imagining that he is still relevant, and he did get some free publicity..
Naming things after an historical figure. Name it Obama and it would be named for an historical failure