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...with most examples being public school teachers or in Chicago.
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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“No Thinks” protests … <yawn>
That’s funny, outside of Fox and other such echo chambers, it’s the costumes and signs that stole the show.
It’s almost like they think this was just an opportunity to demonstrate their theater kid chops, and not serious at all. Maybe someday they will get over high school.
Especially amusing to see the “geezer contingent” (I’m 70, lol!) out blabbering their lame 60’s nonsense – I guess some never strive to grow up… they acted like it was akin to the 1970 Kent State “massacre”…
I’m not going to let you get away with this. Violent symbolism – which was everywhere at these protests – is unacceptable in every circumstance. You’re not going to get away with just waving your hand, like a Jedi Master, and ordering us to look away at the funny Drumpf costumes instead.
I didn’t hear of a single gallows constructed to hang the Vice President.