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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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All colors, all sizes and all shapes are fleeing Chicago and Illinois. PPF and the likes of him have destroyed the state. Greed is “good” if you are on the right side of it.
Democrats see blacks as paid-for votes — not people with families and talents that should be supported. Democrat policies have decimated black families, neighborhoods and businesses, to create a permanent dependency on government. That is the worst form of racism.
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This is gobsmacking… a tactic from a Third World banana republic…
Lets not forget that LBJ predicted this would happen upon the passing of his Great Society Programs. LBJ was elected once again proving that the situation is the will of the people.
It’s not a change in identity politics. The only potential change is which mob is in charge.
Well…..that was a bit of a read.
At the end of which I’ve decided that a short summary would be that the author’s have proved that Black people are leaving Chicago because Illinois Dem’s-n-unions-n-pols-n-Blacks got all the taxes-n-laws-n-courts-n-schools-n-regulations they said they wanted (for 60+ years) to make Black people’s lives better, but that in the end those things actually made Black people’s lives much worse, and they left for other states that did different stuff.
Can’t bring themselves to come right out and say it though……
I’d be interested in reading why the person who made the “down vote” thinks that I’m wrong about what this article and the other links included in it tells us.
Yet, in their new home, they will engage in the same destructive voting patterns that wrecked Illinois.
ps it was not me that down voted.