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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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Katie is collateral damage for Lucky and his policies. A better description of the Man of a Thousand Names is pos illegal criminal.
No truer and succinct words were written “Our governor has said every illegal immigrant “betters” the state, and criminals will receive due process. Katie received no due process. She received a death sentence. And we are serving life without her.” This family’s nightmare and the death of an innocent American Citizen caused 100% by the illegal immigrant who killed her and the Government that allowed him and millions more in unvetted in anyway. The worst of it here is, this guy was known…and they still let him into the United States. The pathetic behavior of Illinois government needs to change.… Read more »
Anyone who reads that open letter is going to grieve for that family. With the continued defense of illegals in the state, it is hard to believe that accountability for their actions and related laws will change. Instead, Illinois doubles down to protect those that don’t belong. Prayers go to the Abraham family who are experiencing a gut wrenching and unfathomable loss combined with a callousness by elected leaders to that loss of their daughter. Like so many other Illinoisans that wait to see the state return to some type of normalcy, I hope that their fight continues in the… Read more »
“He fled immediately and was then aided by associates in Urbana”
Could someone elaborate on is statement? I would really like to know the details.
Aid and support to a criminal is being an accomplice.
Pritzker the coward
I view the entire family as evil.
Yup, there’s a fixation with death