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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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Until the average Chicago voter– the hotel or restaurant worker who is out of a job, the transit worker getting his hours cut, the convention business worker, or any of the thousands of other workers without a paycheck because of the goofy Dem policies– wake up– there wont be any change. A few big business leaders cant out vote the sheep who have been voting their entire lives for Dems. They have to realize they are causing their own suffering– and they are not there yet..
Hinz is and has been a total journalistic misfit. He has been trying very hard to be accepted, but he is like that weird kid that your mother invited to your birthday party. Hinz try’s to be accepted with fake stories like this. No one in the inner circle of Chicago politics or business talks to him because he is a weirdo . He really thought Loris lgbtq status was going to help him, but he’s not even accepted by her. Hinz is incredibly pitiful. I wish Crains would get him already, it’s embarrassing.
““It’s in the initial phase,” says one source familiar with what’s occurring.” ~~~~Hinz, this isn’t news. This is activism masquerading as journalism. You’re not reporting, YOU are making the news by insinuating, with anonymous sources, that Lightfoot is not favored by the business community. Isn’t rule number 1 of reporting to NOT BE THE NEWS? “Those business people “don’t have a candidate,” said one elected official who turned down a request to run. “They’re looking.”” ~~~~So you admit, using anonymous sources, that there is no concrete plan to support someone else, but instead, that people are unhappy with her. FAKE… Read more »
The people are tired of her. That is anyone who contributes productively to society. Her base of voters is criminals, permanent victim class and those who want free stuff. That is her method of re-election. And if it worked with Cabrini Kim it will work with the frog faced angry troll.