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.
Thank goodness for Texas. Aside from our state attorney general, Kwame Raoul, needing a team of lawyers to help him spell his name correctly, he appears totally inept at finding any government or union-related fraud in our state. All while Illinois if widely regarded as the state with the most government and union corruption in the country. And he would never think of striving to clean up our voter rolls, which create massive fraud in our elections here.
Actually, Kwame Raoul just looks the other way like all other liberal democrat leftists in Cook county!