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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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Let the games begin!
Televise the battle, it would be more interesting than anything else on the idiot box.
So long as there are no innocent victims, do we really care if the rats and roaches eliminate each other? I don’t.
So the New York Post, John Kass and the Daily Mail are covering this story but no main stream media. It could be that they don’t want to wake up the simps. They may not vote demofilth like it’s their job.
A few other right of center sources covering it, too. But you are right, MSM hides it. They are a blight on democracy.
The left lives in a world of fantasy and make-believe. They aren’t even hiding it, they literally don’t even care. I made the mistake today of visiting the Drudge Report and it’s full blown left-wing insanity. Drudge is still pushing the “Trump is actually the senile candidate!” angle because he said he wanted Johnny Carson back on TV instead of the crap that is late night TV now. Johnny Carson has been dead for 19 years so they’re saying that Trump is senile. Trump is clearly alluding to that style of late night television, not actually bringing Johnny Carson out… Read more »
“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”― Ayn Rand
Today’s MSM is subversive at best and treasonous at worst.