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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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Johnson would soil himself were he to encounter the HH without his security detail.
Guess what costume Brandon is wearing for
All Hallows Eve, Zippy the Pinheaded.
The pulp in that jack o lantern has a higher IQ than pinhead. But what did you expect from a deadbeat member of CTU?
Almost perfect. Just make the Mindless Mayor look scarier than the headless horseman, and it would be dead on.