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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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She needs to be voted out. She is useless and doesn’t represent IL citizens
Sadly that will never happen.
I see a post-public office career! Tune in to hear the musings of “ Daffy Ducksworth!” Gold, Jerry, gold!
Hegseth is every much the combat veteran and former officer as Duckworth is, so her criticisms of his serving as DOD secretary are just as true against her serving as a US Senator and on the armed services committee.
I thank Senator Duckworth for her service to our Country, but beyond that I do not think she is any position to criticize Republicans if they support Trump’s nominees and agenda. Tammy was happy to help the historically awful inflation numbers take hold over this Country and hurt middle Americans deeply. Without her vote in support of the trillions getting pumped into the economy, inflation could have been held in check. If not for Senator Manchin and Senator Sinema, who finally broke ranks to save the economy from implosion, there’s no telling how bad things would have gotten. Sit back… Read more »
Tammie is a bona fide war hero and deserves all the respect we can give her for that service. But does that mean she is high level thinker and someone who has any special insight into the qualifications necessary for these top jobs. No. Sorry, Tammie. And if you read carefully her comments in this interview, it is just a bunch of gobbledegook. Ok, we know you want to toe the Dem party line and oppose everyone and everything Trump does, but this diatribe is all hot air.
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