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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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Build the wall and install mines and gun towers
Thank you, Joe Biden and your sidekick, Alejandro.
And they have the nerve to call conservatives deplorable.
Just a disgraceful story. When are we going to start enforcing the law and impeach Mayorkas and Biden and prevent dangerous people like this guy from getting into the country in the first place.
Spot on Sparty. We’re overdue for another 9/11 type incident precisely because we really didn’t have a handle on who was allowed in then and Biden isn’t about to get a handle on them now.
Mayorkas deserves to go to prison, for the rest of his life, for seditious treason, and if we had a real country, he’d be rotting in a prison cell by now.