Video: Are Chicago pension liabilities on the brink? – FOX32 (Chicago)

State Sen. Robert Martwick and former CPS executive director Paul Vallas debate what Chicago needs to do to account for its increasing pension liabilities.

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Deb
8 months ago

Let all public unions go bankrupt. Then restructure them to be more like private unions. What IL has now is unsustainable. Democrats have to stop buying votes at the expense of the taxpayers.

Free at Last
8 months ago

This interview speaks volumes about journalism in Illinois and democrat politicians. Let’s waste time and air space talking about whether the liability is $41 Billion or $46 Billion. No discussion on how to solve the problem, except Martwick making some obfuscated remarks about it being cheaper to fix it now. Spit it out Forrest. Taxpayers in your Godforsaken state and city will need to pony up large sums of money to cover the bill. And when I say large sums of money, I mean more money than most of you mooks have. What possible information arises from this discussion that… Read more »

Leaving Soon, just not soon enough
8 months ago

Chicago is Bankrupt financially and morally.

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