-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
Part 1 of an extended interview.
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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this guy is a fourth reich wingman most likely See Eye Aye
First words out of his mouth is jab, jab, jab! Translation die, die, die Untermensch!
Sullivan, Democrat in sheep’s clothing
Read the article on Sullivan in the Illinois Review, online
I agree. I don’t trust that he is who he says he is. We have been taken far too many times over the years.