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“Here’s what I take to the fifth floor,” says Mayor Brandon Johnson, 47. “I understand the conditions of the working poor. There are people who go to work every single day and, in many instances, like my father, have multiple jobs. There are real examples of people who go to work every single day, and they are still struggling to make ends meet every single day. Just because someone is struggling, it doesn’t mean they’re not doing their part to have a better, stronger, more thriving lifestyle. There are conditions and circumstances that surround families that oftentimes get ignored.”
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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Mayor Titanic is now steering the ship, what could go wrong?
Reminds me of the meandering resumes I used to receive from woke, snowflake late-twenties-n-early-thirties applicants trying to get a job in the private sector that would actually pay them enough to move out of their parent’s house.
They’d been awfully busy flibbertygibberting between college-this and community-that ‘lifestyle camouflaged as a job’ positions that typically involved no responsibility for actually accomplishing much of anything at all.
GG, just ask them how much their current position pays and that’s all you’ll need to know.
These people aren’t serious. Platitudes are just another form of bloviating. Feel really bad for the CPD – they will be blamed for a lot of the failure to come.
from reading article maybe Brandon’s a nice guy?…But what’s astounding is none of these folks have ever been in the private sector a day in their lives–( balanced a budget, worried about producing goods & services at a competitive prices, full accrual accounting, etc)…..And I’m sure they don’t care about those of us that do.
Behind that grin is carnival music playing in his head.
they’re the good carnival barkers (not like us)
BJ worked for the CTU as a corrupt POS organizer.
Tough 4hr a day gig for him.