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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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Radical Democrats love the guy and radical Democrats vote…the rest of the population doesn’t vote that much.
Seeing Beshear (KY) in the top 10 MOST popular tells me all I needed to know about this “poll”.
And yet Pritzker was re-elected, and now wants to be US president too!
Popularity polls are meaningless when the politician’s billionaire family effectively bankrolls his political party. The missus is header to DC WH to measure for curtains.
Nothing spending a few million out of his trust fund can’t take care of.
Pigchop is on the Wall of Fame at Genos for his consumption of stuffed pizza pies!!
Who are the 52% of people running loose on our streets that think this guy is doing a good job? Lord help us, please. I guess there are more Chicago, Decatur, Peoria, North Chicago and South Chicago Heights public school ‘graduates’ running around than we realized. Must be that the folks who can’t read, can’t count the change in their pockets and don’t watch what is going on around them think JB is doing OK. Who else could it be?