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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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LIghtfoot has no idea how much she is hated and scorned
She’s a narcissist with no sense of self-awareness. She also mistakenly believes that her color of skin and sexuality identity makes her intelligent and wise, which that’s got nothing to do with it at all. And she’s arrogant because she doesn’t care. This new brand of progressive – unrepentant, petulant, truculent and authoritarian – is easily the most destructive force we’ve seen in politics in 50 years, as we watch our major cities fail under the leadership of our societies’ dumbest leaders.
Don’t waste your time, it’s just a video of people laughing
She made her own home safer with that huge police detail….
Lori’s plan is based on World foosball rankings. Her plan is working.