-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
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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He needs to be recalled.
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Open up, all businesses open up let silver spoon pull all the licenses, guess what idiot Pritzker no more businesses no more REVENUE. Threatening people and businesses will not under any circumstances work governor, stop listening to the little weasel (Madigan) and grow some balls and handle this like a man, not a little boy in a sand box.
Jabba speaks, and issues his edicts…comply with my commands, serfs, or feel my wrath ! further driving out even more citizens, and businesses, yet fueling the collapse of Illinois even faster. Cya Illinois ! Keep voting for democrats and this is what you get, despots and crazies.
So says the All Powerful Oz ( and you know he wasn’t).
If you go BK due to Pritzkers needless and illegal Lockdown, who cares about a state license?
So saith the despot.
Punish, punish, punish.
People think I’m hyperbolic when I say that Illinois government hates businesses here. Sometimes I wonder if I’m being a little dramatic, myself.
But I’m constantly reminded, with my own experiences and then with how they talk about us in public and private.
Does the average citizen in Illinois think like this, too?
Have you had a conversation with ANY public employee – Judge, Fire Chief, Police Chief, on down? They think ‘private enterprise’ just happens, and exists solely to be taxed to prop up government.
Why is this imbecile being allowed to bankrupt the state of Illinois?
People can’t wait till late June. This will get messy.
Now compare this policy to that of Kim Foxx.
Even the slightest dissent means ruin!