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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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Playgrounds are closed because like the predominantly minority patronage workers who work at the city, county, state who haven’t been at work in a year do not want to work. Their job is to get the vote out for the Democratic machine not to service the taxpayers.
Signs and such are ignored in my area of the city.
I took my kid to Mary Bartelme Park last year and everyone was obeying the CLOSED signs. I really wanted to say screw it and flex my freedoms but we decided to just come back to our neighborhood.
Just ignore the signs.
I’ve reported you to the COVID POLICE, just kidding!
Good question.
The election is over, why is any of this crap still going on!?
It has all been about control.
Why not start from the young ones and get them scared and go up from there.
They are on a mission to instill guilt and fear in the people. Children are an easy target. Guilt and fear – the hallmarks of tyranny throughout history.