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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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she should pay every nickel back in a time period that will impode hardship on her lifestyle
Retired on government dole. Disbarred. Taking money from a trusting friend. ordered to pay $120K in restitution. Probation. Excellent work courts. She possesses all the qualities needed in judges.
Wow, what a low life. Fits IL perfectly.
Illinois attracts the low life’s like an
electro magnet does steel in a junkyard.
Bonus: She gets to keep her $200k per year judicial pension.
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Because they earned it and even homicide can’t change that, say the pension first and foremost folks, even if proven to be not fulfilling their duties and breaking the law while on the job.
even as a Judge she lives up to the stereotype, and of course probation ,a slap on the hand, pathetic.
Exactly, stereotypes are earned, not given.
Crime Pays.