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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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BLM is a terrorist organization. And must be indicated as such. There are very very few outside agitators. The problem is south and west side animals doing the looting. And when is lori’s Boy RINO Lausch going to do his job? He’s afraid to charge these domestic terrorists with federal hate crimes because Lori won’t let him.
He is afraid to fully activate because he doesn’t want to be beholden to Trump.
Tell all the people who have lost all sorts of things with these riots and the chaos. It is far past protesting. This way he can say it was Trumps fault. Well he was the one up in Wisconsin when Chicago and the area surrounding were under fire.
Welcome to Phase 5! Shouldn’t it have been clear that the downstream affects of going all out on covid long term – high unemployment, no school, no social networks – would create a tinder box of pent up energy? Even those of us who are still employed feel the anxiety.
Progressives believe that human behavior is dictated by government will.
Precisely which is why personal/property rights should never be forsaken in this country. Ever.
Since Pritzker is not demanding that Looters, Rioters, and Protestors wear PPE, Social Distance, and not gather in groups larger than 10 people, does this mean the ‘Executive Powers’ he alone entrusted to himself are now voided!?!?!? Seems so. Just a week ago the CPD were trying to storm a church having a small service on Sunday, in the name of Pritzkers ‘Executive Powers’ – talk about dystopian. Not one Democrat ‘leader’ has challenged Pritzker, not one.
You can’t make this stuff up. They were sending SWAT teams to churches while ANTIFA and BLM was preparing to burn the city to the ground. I don’t know how these people can wake up in the morning and maintain the same beliefs they had yesterday.
Has no problem doing a shelter in place under the guise of “public safety”. Reluctantly activates the National Guard when the state is actually under attack. Priztzker and failed leadership in a nutshell. #NevilleChamberlain
Whenever I hear “public safety” it means prepare to lose some of your rights.
Dictator for Life Jabba is activating the Illinois National Guard? I’m glad to see him follow President Trump’s advice
He informed the NG that their primary mission was to protect the Hyatt hotel properties, his multi million dollar mansion, and protect his formerly toiletless 2nd mansion. He issued the directives while milking cows and churning butter as he tended to the animals at the Wisconsin working farm estate
What’s pritzger’s “limited edition”? Until the IL National Guard is decimated? pritzger and dimboob do not have your back Nat’l Guard and Chicago Police’s. Your health is worth more than protecting a city for well connected politicians(mob) who take Illinois Taxpayers to the cleaners and have no intention of protecting us.