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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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Besides being an Asswhole, she’s also crazy!
What do you think the chances are of us learning that the murderer is a member of one of the progressive-n-woke crowd’s ‘diversity victim’ groups, and that this murder isn’t the only time the murderer has been in and out of what passes for a ‘criminal justice’ system in Illinois.
This is terrible but becoming a more common thing in the Chitty.
Public Transportation is very dangerous to ride today. The criminals are now running the streets and the crooks are now running the government. Ken Griffen left because of this kind of stuff. Illinois lost billions of taxpayer dollars. Illinois is going to lose billions more has hundreds of thousands more residents flee for the safety of their families.