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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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Yep DOJ will get right on it BJ! 😆
Six Percent only a couple degrees shy of the boiling rhetoric being preached in South Africa currently calling for the eradication of white people. What a racist, Marxist nut job he is.
Speaking of South Africa, here is today’s WH presser with the President of SA… Trump MASTERFULLY “creams” the smarmy leftist puke about the persecution of SA whites, he’s rendered speechless, it’s a must – see…!!! Trump also merrily berates an NBC reporter who stupidly tries to harp about the gift of the Qatari jet to the US:
President Trump Participates in a Bilateral Meeting with the President of South Africa (one hour)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cy-HJ2wRZs
Here is a great excerpt (four minutes):
President Trump Brings TV Into Oval Office to Show South African President Proof of Persecution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDF4GMBwbGE