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Ted joined Ray Stevens, filling in for Steve Cochran, to discuss the reasons behind Illinois’ recent wave of major factory closures, why Illinois does not prioritize its businesses, and how to make the state more competitive versus its neighbors.
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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.
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Gotion should go away.
Wirepoints don’t like my comments LOL! just another sissy controlled opposition site.
Yes Illinois has its own obvious reasons to be losing manufacturing. But the real issue with manufacturing is that the USA is losing its ability to “make things”. Janet Yellen was just in China telling them, with her audacity, that they have enormous “overcapacity” at manufacturing, and that will hurt the US. Sure will, but telling China to not run fast so we could stay ahead is childish. Truth is China has perfected the manufacturing process, we’ve lost it. They are about to open a factory that will be capable of “stamping out” EV cars at the rate of one… Read more »
Lots of truth written here. Our pols are in bed with this “system” too. Think the Bidens, Feinstein, etc…..
Yep……..started little over 3 years ago!!! Ya know under the big guy trying to ruin AMERICA!
Janet Yellen, aka ‘Aunt Betsy’, is the greatest economic menace of modern time surpassing Allen Greenspan by miles.