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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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Require DNC delegates to ride CTA. Maintain a “low carbon footprint” for DNC Convention, to align with DNC climate change agenda. Kerry and his lot should travel by Greyhound bus, rather than his private plane. Biden himself should take the Amtrak from DC.
Let DNC party delegates get full-on CTA experience. If it’s good enough for Chicago residents, then it’s good enough for DNC delegates too.
It’s perfect the prince and princess’s can experience the CTA first hand, think of all the potential revenue.Think of how this can enrich all the children! Mobs of children robbing buses. It could be like the james gang! Lori’s Rangers; gidyup! If they don’t hesitate to murder police officers what woul discourage murdering the Democrat elites?
All the socialists I know take the buss to reduce their carbon footprint. Party leaders need to set an example.
If it can be screwed up it will be screwed up. That is how government does its best work. Governments job is to discourage the private sector worker. Government does not work for you; you work for government.
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