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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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Millions of illegals have flooded into the United States thanks to SloJoe. Governor Abbot has exported about 82,000 illegals out of Texas to Sanctuary Cities and the sky is falling. I’m missing something here.
Keep ‘em coming.
What he meant to say is “The Biden administration is determined to cause chaos throughout the United States.” Bidet himself is a senile fool, he has no idea what’s going on.
Wow. A WTTW Democrat Pravda propaganda piece. As Public Radio is paid for mostly with your tax dollars their decades of bias is shameful. Chicago is a proclaimed “sanctuary city ” so the political slime running the town and their voters should be celebrating and welcoming their new fellow victims and takers with open arms. Trump had a great idea to end funding for Public Radio. Let’s hope that he follows through in his second term. Some Public Radio like classical WFMT will survive just fine. Others like WTTW will need to see if their hyper woke listeners are willing… Read more »
IL and Chicago are sanctuaries for illegal immigrants. Till that changes, Illegal immigrants will be directed here.
Gosh, that Abbot guy is always a step ahead of JB & BJ. People even think bigger in Texas.
Brando will impound the plane next! He’s pathetic.
Chicago’s a migrant welcoming sanctuary city except for migrants transported by their own free will and choice by evil xenophobic MAGA right-wing extremist “raggedy” Abbott?