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Organized labor and the business community are demanding far more robust infrastructure spending, while the governor’s people point to very real cost considerations for consumers.
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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Pritzker’s favorite ringworm oozes out from the sweat, oil, dead skin and bits of last nights dinner among his fat folds to issue another pronouncement of his employer. While pretending to be a “journalist”. Pathetic.
I thought my complete lack of respect for Miller was unparalleled, but I have to tip my hat to you.
Rich Miller is the poster child for the current state of deeply corrupt ‘Journalism’. The massively perverted bias that they write has very little to do with facts and everything to do with propaganda. Most of the media are simply shills for the Democrat Party as much as Joseph Goebbels was shill for the Nazi Party. It is shameful and disgusting.