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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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Ah, Jacob Blake’s uncle is as upstanding a citizen as he is. You can’t make this stuff up! Read and laff: https://patch.com/illinois/evanston/jacob-blakes-uncle-charged-gun-crimes-after-evanston-arrest “Jacob Blake’s Uncle Charged With Gun Crimes After Evanston Arrest Justin Blake, uncle of the man shot and paralyzed by a Kenosha police officer last year, was pulled over Saturday after a demonstration. Posted Tue, Nov 16, 2021 EVANSTON, IL — The uncle of the man whose shooting by police last year triggered days of unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, has been charged with gun crimes and traffic offenses following a traffic stop Saturday in Evanston. Justin Blake, 52,… Read more »
King Jabba will rescind nothing! His ungrateful subjects will be punished for their insolence with an extension of the mask mandate.
They are asking the Governor to eat his words. Probably, they are the only things he won’t eat!
+1,000
Maybe his words are full of trans fat?
Hey Porky a tragedy is when everyone in Chicago is starving or living in food deserts(remember those). You have an industrial cargo scale in your bathroom. Shameless. Why not stop the charade and go enjoy your well earned wealth.
JB Prickster is ranked #918 on the Forbes real time billionaire list with a fortune of only $3,400,000,000 ($3.4 Billion) Dollars. He answers to no one. He has the power of a drug cartel and can buy or pay off anyone he wants politically. He is a man without any boundaries. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. This is where we are at with this petty Tyrant.