-- 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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The only thing sure in Illinois is
“Death and Taxes”.
Let them die is the rally call.
No Masks, scientists are liars.
White Lives do NOT matter.
Where are the attorneys who believe in and value the law? There should be huge number of patriots in the law who are suing this goof for his violation of our civil rights…
Could you possibly be referring to the ACLU?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha… tee hee.
Good question but as any educated person knows, Communists despise individual rights and the Bill of Rights in particular!!
This will not end well.
If you value your health stay out of crowds of any kind.
You are mentally challenged if you risk you life for a cheeseburger.
Listen to science and protect your family.
Science says it’s less deadly than the flu
The only mentally challenged person that posts on this blog is you
You have every right to feel like this & live your life in fear…
You don’t have the right to *make me join you* in your fearfulness…
No one is *making* you go out into crowds…
All we want is to be left alone, to make our own choices…
I think it should be legal for HIV people to spread it all over Chicago. It is their choice not to tell anyone about the risk.
STD should be encouraged among all residents, it is their choice.
I think it should be okay to kill the elderly and your grand parents at will.
Why protect loved ones and follow science? it is just too hard for some people to do.
Ban the mask, bring back crowded basketball stadiums.
Let the virus run its course.
DO IT!
DO IT!!
DO IT!!!
I’m sure that Jumbo Belly has his own personal chef. And from the look of that side view he eats well and often. But you can’t put all these small businesses out of business. Even the WHO is now against lock downs. As the one guy said you can get carry out if you’re not comfortable dining in.
Problem is nobody in this damn state sticks up for themselves, we’re all sheep’s to this bull mark my words pritzker will shut this state down next week just Pryor to the election and get on his knees and beg for relief, look what the virus has done to my state nobody will challenge this fat you know what.Politicians in Springfield are nothing but whores to Madigan on both sides of the fence I’ve just had it with this crap in Illinois
Then move out of Illinois
I will gladly support & dine at any of these restaurants…
Bravo. Tell the governor to get bent and force the state to show you the data. Hint, they can’t and won’t. They are lying about where the numbers are coming from. It’s not from restaurants and bars. Can u say lawsuits.
Screw the communist politicians! I stand behind the businesses and your right to make a living!