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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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The mayor did the right thing, Schaumburg has ZERO to do with Gaza, if you don’t like it then move to Palestine and help your people, dumb shyts!
Hear, hear! Let’s address the problems facing our communities before fiddling in international affairs.
How would Schaumburg react to a resolution passed against them by Israel? Probably ignore it as Israel should ignore other countries meddling in Israeli affairs.
The October 7th massacre and hostage taking was like our 9/11.
Political discourse is getting stupider and stupider by the day. Conservatives rightly yelled at school boards for permitting salacious and perverted materials into elementary school libraries. These joo hating morons in Schaumburg are screaming at a bunch of old people about a war between two distant countries on the other side of the planet. There is “no complex interplay between local governance and international affairs” as the author of the article suggests, it’s just a bunch of low IQ idiots who forgot that they no longer live in the old country. Go back home and fight the wars yourselves, you… Read more »