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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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A overwhelmingly Democrat institution – primary school teaching – refuses to work in conservative areas. Just another way that the leftists in this state go out of their way to punish conservatives. Remember folks – they hate, they hate your beliefs, they hate they way you smell, and they don’t even want to breathe the same air as you. They would put you in work camps for the rest of your life, deplorable, if the could.
I grant that politically conservative neighbors may well not appeal to many, but maybe they mostly just don’t want to live in rural areas where social life and shopping is so limited. You seem to forget or deny that point of view.
A whole lot of job position requirements would disappear if the illegals did and English only.