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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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Sheriffs – well done and I commend you. Too bad many police chiefs don’t have the same standards and ethics. And I’m a retired chief! God bless and stay safe!
I salute these patriots!!
Latest from the UK. London’s lock-down questioned as “Public Health England models suggest virus will be wiped out in June” (source:Daily Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/) The UK death rate as a percentage has been higher than North America. I said it before and I say it again. This is not going to end well for the Governor and Mayor.
God Bless America
“This is not going to end well for the Governor and Mayor.”
You’re right, but not in the way you think. Those two goofs will capitulate to the business community and then be ousted/opposed by the union and free stuff army, neither of whom has much intention of ever returning to work. They’ll support the candidates who in two years want to make sure all government employees ‘work’ from home, with full pay, because the coronavirus might still be out there.
But, but…the smart crowd at CapFax sez this is just a lot of hillbillies being white supremacists and such. And, and..the hillbilly sheriffs should enforce the ‘law’. Thing is, Pritz’s order isn’t a law. It’s an edict. A diktat. Man, are they going to be really surprised in November. 😀
It goes without saying that we here all think Oswego Willy is one of the dumbest people on earth.
There’s nobody over there with an IQ in the double digits, nor with the ability to earn a paycheck in the real world
Oh, for sure. Talk about a group of coddled old(er) men. Not that there’s anything wrong with being an old man. But to be so coddled by such a corrupt system has also addled their brains and made them more akin to a group of fussy old Karens. I doubt any of them have lost anything real due to Pritzker’s folly. Probably sit at home most days anyway, and, as you’ve said, have not lost paycheck or pension.
You don’t realize how much it must upset him that he can’t depend on Rich to delete your comment. 😉
He’s a very sensitive fellow. That almost always tells me he hasn’t really the courage of his convictions.
Pritzker and Lightfoot are not up for reelection for several years.
Yes, I know. But the legislature is. What better gift for Pritz than to remove his super-majority, at the very least. I am sorry about Lightfoot, but Chicagoans must deal with that. 😉
Unfortunately, half of all legislature seats in the fall are uncontested. and the new maps will be drawn next year based on this election.
Democracy will have to wait until 2032…
I was thinking how unfortunate it is that, in this time, we don’t have a ton of good folk running for the state senate and house. Talk about shoe-ins.
Few things incense me more than the way Pritzker (and Miller, his mouthpiece) are constantly stereotyping southern Illinoisans and dissenters that way.
What…you don’t believe in massaged data and emotion-drive science? 😉 You unmitigated hick.
I am from Chicago and while I cannot claim to have hit all 102 counties in Illinois, I certainly can say that I have traveled to portions of this state that a great many others have not. One of the things that you cannot help noticing are the differences between here and what many in Chicago now simply refer to as “South of I-80”. During my travels, I used to enjoy checking out some of the local places like John Baldini’s Luca Grill or the Main Gate in Springfield (Democratic Party strongholds both) or the Igloo in Peru. Back then… Read more »
I lived in southern Illinois for four years, and the vast majority of people there have nothing but disdain for my hometown of Chicago. It’s not unusual for professional sports teams to realign their divisions. So in that vein, I wonder how Illinois citizens outside of Chicagoland would vote to realign the state; i.e. create a new state or merge with adjacent states. There was actually recent talk of something similar in California, (splitting into three states) but alas, it was only wishful thinking.
The towns south of I-80 need to increase their appeal to republican leaning voters and gain population. But small towns and rural areas are not gaining population, not just in this state, but are losing population everywhere in the union. To grow rural and small towns would require all manufacturing and high tech to reshore jobs to cheaper locales around the US which is one way of increasing the fortunes of rural america. It would also require more a larger immigrant population to resettle into small town america, which would just be like importing generations of blue democrat voters. There… Read more »
It’s good to see that the police are standing up to this p****. Now what needs to happen is for someone to arrest him for what he has done. I’ll bet that there will be no shortage of volunteers willing to help keep him locked up against any opposition that tries to illegally release him.