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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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Pugsley the trust fund tax cheat got into elite schools through family money and graduated without distinction.
DeSantis got into Yale undergrad and Harvard law school, graduating both with honors.
Pritzker is the well-heeled Leftist version of Chris Christie. I know, it’s repugnant to contemplate. Look for Pritzker to buy his way to the DNC clubs nomination now that the Pelosi crime family have made their move with Newsom.
Let’s be honest here, DeSantis went on the offense with this sparing, and Pritzker was on his back foot the entire time, first attacking the man’s intelligence (Harvard/Yale Grad), and then fell backwards trying to explain that the bill only allows ‘some’ illegal immigrants to become police officers and everything is just right-wing lies. Resorting to calling DeSantis stupid for suggesting that all, rather than some, illegal immigrants could be police officers, shows that Pritzker’s virtue signaling is going to fall flat to the normie Democrat in the primaries. The progressive Dem never wins the primaries, the moderate does, and… Read more »
If you disagree with him or his policies, you’re a carnival barker or whatever demeaning names comes to his little mind. I seriously cannot stand to see his mug anywhere.