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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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Truly disgusting diatribe JB…nazi? Really? Does this fat clown know what the nazis did too, took away second amendment rights and confiscated guns…sound familiar ? Just like IL…They persecuted their political enemies…also sound familiar? They squashed dissent, and instituted single party rule. Also familiar. Look in the mirror tyrant before calling names. If there is a party nazi like its the democrats.
To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, “Pritzker spends money like a drunken sailor!” Wait even a drunk sailor can’t spend that much.
Interesting, the Left always uses the ‘Nazi’ diatribe. Just as appropriate would be the Stalin Communist comparison.But since they identify with that latter group they don’t use it.
Pritzker doesn’t seem to realize that 45% of the vote in Illinois was for Trump………
He does realize that. And he’s giving them all a warning: They are not welcome in Illinois’s progressive dystopian utopia.
“We are one of those countries that decided to choose a president that is giving us a taste of what that can look like for our future democracy.” – Norma Hernandez (D-How ya doin’?)
Wrong, political animal Norma. President Trump is giving us a taste of our future bureaucracy. As in smaller. He also cut off your RICO party’s theft of tax dollars via the three-letter agencies. The Republic grows stronger, not weaker, when thieving political animals are thwarted.
Every problem is a nail to a hammer
Trump needs to bring all his wrath to Illinois, it’ll hurt but these lefties just don’t get it yet.
Note to Pritzger: That dog don’t hunt.
Pritzker sways in breeze of liberal Democratic talking-points, swish, swish, swish of TDS. He supports Covid martial law, wants to spend $150M in 2025 Covid contact-tracing, continually slanders MAGA supporters and Trump as “Nazi”, refuses even mere fraction of budget-tightening and transparency of 2nd term Trump Administration actions.
He may think his schtick plays well to the lefties in Illinois, but the more he blabbers on like this, the further he moves away from the trend nationwide. He must have some hard core believers on his staff writing this dribble , but he, and they, are out of touch with the rest of the nation and he is killing any bigger political plans he has. He needs to start moving more toward the middle, like Bill Clinton did, or he will shortly become irrelevant even to the national Dem base.
Unfortunately, there are tons of TDS individuals in IL that think this clown is great. Head to reddit/Illinois and read some of the comments and it will scare you to death that these people are allowed to vote.
There is Some serious mental illness in this state, for some reason people are buffaloed by the local news media and politicians and are afraid to open their eyes and see what’s truly going on
It’s not hard to understand why people in this state are buffalo by news media and politicians. Just look at the education system.
Let’s see. The gov encourages abortion by making Illinois the top destination in the Midwest to get one and calling it a win for women’s reproductive health. Not one word about abstinence/virginity/using protection to avoid the need for getting an abortion. How many elderly people died needlessly because he followed former governor Cuomo’s playbook on how to put as many people as possible together in nursing homes so they can all get covid. What has he done for many whose taxes are sky high and going higher so people need to decide Do I pay my taxes or not take… Read more »
Somebody should tell Round boy Pritzker that the Nazi label is so last year!
Ok republicans and people of Illinois start calling for Pritzker’s resignation now get this individual out of office, remember if the shoe was on the other foot the state be burning right now, get out Pritzker there is no place for you anymore.
Has Trump built any concentration camps? Imprisoned political opponents? Taken over any media outlets? Invaded any other countries? Has he threatened Jews or Israel? Has he taken over the court system and replaced judges with puppets? Started kangaroo courts? Started a Gestapo to spy on citizens? The worst thing he’s done is cut funding, some of it to Democrat slush funds. His EOs are no different than Biden’s. Let’s have some specifics, Pritzker, other than generalizations and saying he’s a Jew and knows a fascist. And let’s not forget Pritzker acted like a dictator with all his Covid restrictions.
There’s no need to retort JB’s arguments with any contrary evidence because JB is not calling us Nazis in good faith. JB is calling us Nazis to slander us and drive us out of the state. He’s made it abundantly clear he’d gladly replace us with illegal immigrants as quickly as possible. It is difficult to accept this. Everyone tries to rationalize his comments: “He doesn’t really mean it” or “He’s just using talking points” or “He’s positioning himself for president”. No, this is all cope. He is calling you a Nazi because he means it. He intends to hurt… Read more »
So if we do all pack up and leave aren’t we just “rewarding” his behavior by giving him what he wants?
He’s already won, twice actually, by a margin of 800,000 votes each election. Even if Republicans turned out every 2024 Trump voter in 2026 to vote against JB, it still wouldn’t be enough, because they would only need to turn out 10% of their low propensity Kamala Harris voters. Absent some shift to register 600,000+ new Republicans voters, I don’t see how we can win any statewide election against JB. Even if we tried to register 600,000+ new voters, I highly doubt the well is deep enough to find that many new Republican voters. And even if we did find… Read more »