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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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Since all the gang violence has been suppressed, he has to crack down somewhere.
Dallas has a fascist mayor and judge also, but we have a good governor.
Pritzker want to criminalize those that want to earn a living to feed their families. He lets criminals out of jail who have no goal. Pritzker still gets paid and is able to feed his family.
Paid? Hah. He is living off of that which he inherited. There is no justice or morality in the government of Illinois. The flaw in our state democracy is the voters disregard for the power of their vote and the value it can provide. The people for whom they vote understand that “public servants” doesn’t describe them, the elected, it describes US, the serfs.
And he hates the orange man so bad, JB will burn the state down just to show Trump what a bad man he is.