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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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Didn;t know PFC Duckworth now heads VA. Go girl!
Shut the Duck up !! What are you doing or have you done about the parking lot issues up till and including today? Stop using ICE as a reason for issues at this VA hospital. You say you personally experienced the problems there in the past yet you turned a blind eye to them and the hundreds of Vets that must use the VA.
You have done NOTHING
Not a Ducking thing.
Fix the damn parking lot DUCK. That’s the tragedy here.
Duckworthless again impedes Federal law enforcement.
She writes the parking lot has “long lacked capacity to handle the daily volume of patients, family members and caregivers.” Those limitations have “forced Veterans to miss appointments and made visiting Hines a highly stressful and unpleasant event for Veterans,” which she said she has experienced personally. Hasnt this representative had plenty of time in office to get the needed improvements to the parking problems there implemented. Duckworth excoriates ICE as “an out-of-control paramilitary force that refuses to identify itself with uniforms and covers its face as it snatches Americans off the streets into unmarked vans” and bemoans “the Trump… Read more »
“Wrongway “ will quack out any sort of hairbrained nonsense to try and make one of her idiotic claims. When she removes her legs and lays on the ground to grandstand, then you know she’s getting serious and desperate.