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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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JB the Hutt extolled his sycophants to violence. We have this on video.
Mostly peaceful Democrats like the odious Maxine Waters have gotten away with this for years.
Never happen. No prison could hold him….literally
If he hasn’t been indicted for Toiletgate, continually falling short on a state constitutionally mandated balanced budget or his bumbling of the covid pandemic creating a set back for school children and causing businesses to close that are doing so even now, his slobbering, jaw flapping spiel designed to position him as the next Dem presidential candidate won’t either. If they wanted him gone, they could easily focus on his interference in the WI elections ( CBS is finding out that election influencing carries a stiff penalty ) or his help in greasing the skids for Obama, probably the two… Read more »
Well let’s see if Salvi or anybody in the Trump administration follows through, I doubt that they will.
Unless there is incitement to “imminent violence,” what Pritzker said is protected by the First Amendment. I doubt courts would rule against Pritzker on this.