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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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Laughing just another day in Illinois…why would I expect more?
Could not agree more! MAGA
The world is full of over-educated, overfed and over-indulged people who truly believe that they alone know what’s best for mankind, that only their own ideas and values are correct or worthy, and that these values must be forced on others who hold differing, wrong opinions. Non-approved voices must be silenced and shamed. Just say no to this **** unless you really do want to live in a Marxist box. If we are all headed off a cliff like Thelma and Louise, may we each at least choose our own cliff to drive off?
“The world is full of over-educated, overfed and over-indulged people who truly believe that they alone know what’s best for mankind, that only their own ideas and values are correct or worthy, and that these values must be forced on others who hold differing, wrong opinions.” Gee, none of that applies to Wirepoints respondents, or does it? All here seem such a warm, fuzzy and accepting “que será, será” group.
James, the difference is that this forum is from citizens who have a common interest in demanding better actions from their government. For too long we have been lectured by “experts” on nearly every aspect of our lives. Perhaps some of us are weary of those failed policies. Note, you have not been silenced…dissenting opinions are allowed.
Well, I have to tell you I find a few respondents here presenting themselves as experts while doing things far afield for a living–quickly denigrating government officials and elected officials without even that level of hard-knock real-world experience to be so righteous and self-confident in their criticisms. I won’t mention mention names, but don’t you find it a bit odd and even exasperating to find the same people weighing forth on literally almost every topic with their own half-baked concept of how it should be done otherwise? I would hope people might be humble enough to limit their inputs to… Read more »
Progs refuse to acknowledge this law of the universe:
Don’t dish it out if you can’t take it
I wont mention his name.. but James IS the expert Neo. He’s seen it all. Hard knocking life type apparently. Only expert opinions here.
But really he seems more of a passive aggressive footman for the gov.
Maybe I’m wrong.
This is not about Republican v Democrats anymore, even Progressives v Conservatives. It is about us, the common people against the Deep State (The Uni-party et al). All of our national institutions are now corrupt to the core, even the FDA who last week approved a Biogen drug for Alzheimer’s that resulted in three independent medical experts on the panel of the FDA immediately resigning. Do you smell something about to happen with the COVID 19 vaccines final FDA approvals? “He who pays the piper plays the tune” comes to mind. Pfizer made $3.6bn in the first three months of… Read more »
Good vs Evil.
The further one gets from God, the less one sees their rights emanating from Him and not from man. You don’t have to be a Bible thumper to see that. It’s logic.
Lucifer preys on weak minds.
You are certainly right about the free-for-all of special interests, but I disagree when you say this is not an attempted cultural revolution. It is that, too. Today’s far left, which consists of no more than a third of America, despises most everything about our culture and our form of government. Take no comfort in the fact that it is only a third. That’s enough to seize control, and that’s what they have done, at least for now. It’s not about holding the line. What’s been lost must be taken back.
Mark,
this article has been making the rounds. It is about how conservatives have been sounded defeated. Would love to hear your thoughts:
https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/woke-institutions-is-just-civil-rights
Fair points MG.
Like the British in World War II and Churchill, one must stop the tyranny first before one can advance and take back what has been lost.
We have not even stopped it yet. Maybe a President Trump type leader would enable this. Then one can start taking back.
As in 2016, 2018, and 2020, it will be establishment Republicans/ Uniparty types trying to shame and bully Moderates and Conservatives in Illinois to re-elect Pritzker and the Leftist Democrats. These people have no shame.
The Republicans in Illinois are feckless. As Dan Proft opined, “would it make a difference if every elected official were Democratic in Springfield?”
Progressives are awful people. Truly awful. You see the results of their governance. Now that they’re in power, they fully intend to entrench themselves as people in power always do. Have you seen the new maps? Now the question is, how hard are you willing to fight them to remove them from power? Because they won’t leave office when they’re voted out. Has one progressive in IL been kicked out of office yet? I can’t even name one. They only seem to be replacing moderate Democrats.
Cullerton had his hands in on the Fair maps along with the weasel aka Madigan they never go away until there legs up and 6ft down.