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Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker said he’s willing to spend what it takes in the next election to help President Joe Biden keep his job. "It’s very important to me that we elect a Democratic president and that we make sure to keep DeSantis, Trump and the retrograde views that they carry out of the White House,” Pritzker, a longtime Democratic donor, said. “I’ll continue to support Democrats in the best way I can to help them get elected.”
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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Failed Governor Pritzker Wants Another Democrat Failure To Be The Next President — A Democrat That Will Do Another Round Of Blue State Billion Dollar Bailout Boondoggles
And he doesn’t care how much of his untaxed offshore billions he has to spend to do it!
Pritzger is just an evil, despicable person. I wish him nothing but misery and suffering for the rest of his life.
Ironically, I consider his views to be retrograde. Look at this glutenous fatso, gobbling up more than his fair share of food, full of greed and avarice, and petty jealousies… His views on killing babies are the same as the bronze age Canaanites; his views on transgenderism are no different than the sodomites and gomorrahites, his views on wealth redistribution (which of course does not include his own wealth, all safely stored off-shore) are barbarian, not recognizing property rights, and his views on religion are absolutely pagan. This man encapsulates everything that is wrong with the world today. I am… Read more »