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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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Oak Park cancelled their Oktoberfest too.
https://www.oakpark.com/2021/05/04/no-summer-events-for-downtown-oak-park/
So basically Oak Park will echo to the sounds of fireworks bought at Krazy Kaplan’s and Phantom Fireworks just over the border in Indiana then?
Not much, wokesters don’t annual trip to Krazy Kaplans, but they will sit inside and curse all the lower class masses scaring their pedigree lap dogs.
They don’t want the problem of dealing with visitors from Chicago descending on The Village.
Oak Park- Go figure Libs are to scared to come out and take off masks! Sheep!
My town Lockport, mostly blue collar, will be hosting Canal Days next week 6/11 to 6/13 c’mon out! Those wokesters in Oak Park just don’t know how to have fun. We are way more diverse here in Lockport than Oak Park, we got yer whites, yer mexicans, yer businessmen, some blacks, lots of Polaks, etc. If it wasn’t for Lockport the Chicago River would still be flowing east and our history is much more interesting than Oak Park. Also in the fall cmon to Lockport for WWII days, see real tanks, howitzers, machine guns, armies, encampments, and bombers re-enact a… Read more »
Let’s be honest here, The communist republic of Oak Park hates ‘Merica anyways.