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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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He needed to be close to a bathroom
There is big difference between dying with Covid vs dying from Covid. He still puts all 20,000 in the “from” category, obviously its politically advantageous to do that.
He’s blaming the superminority Republicans for this?
Oh JB, how you degrade yourself.
Now that libs believe they have won the “culture wars” of the last few decades, they have escalated to scapegoating anyone who opposed them. This is happening at every level in both government and what used to be “civil” society. It will only get worse as they will seek to blame opponents for the massive failures that are inevitable given their policies. That is why calling them out on facts, figures and their blatant hypocrisy does not matter to them. They have built a coalition of the pseudo-educated such as teachers, journalists and all the other sjws, and the “downtrodden”… Read more »
And again he claims the carnival barkers are back again Pritzker acting like a 2 year old because you didn’t get your way. Remember everyone when 2022 comes around fire Pritzker and vote accordingly.
Wow. As predicted: Blame the Republicans.
He did not say anything that most people did not already know.
How BIG of him to say that this thing will end. DUH.
Talk about circling back –must have gone to the same school as Biden’s Press Sec.
They say a lot of words and never get to the core of the issue.
So he pretty much admitted he is going to sign the criminal justice reform bill, as for the rest nothing has changed in my mind same old rhetoric glad to see his wife is back from Florida must be safe to be back in Illinois and lieutenant Governor what a joke. Also didn’t need a history lesson from this man.