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“We have to look forward. If we spend all of our time having a conversation about what I should have, what I could have done, then you would sound like a Cubs or a Sox fan… Maybe more of a Sox fan,” Johnson said through a chuckle. “This is about moving forward.”
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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Correction please, the voters made a mistake electing this clown
That statement always signals that the speaker is unintelligent, insecure, and lacks humility. The lack of humility and insecurity being a direct result of low intelligence, of course.
Does Mayor Cliff Notes even know what the word ‘some’ means? Appearing with sycophants from We BE Zombies and their puppet newspaper the Sun-Times, Mayor Notes took that usual underwater-in-the-polls trip down that river in Egypt: denial.
Similarly, Jill the Babysitter again propped up the cadaver of Grifter Joe on similarly fetid TV programs. Mayor Notes and the Cadaver took essentially the same trip, except that Mayor Notes is still in office and the Cadaver is unaware that he no longer is.
Your modern Democrat Part on display, folks.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!
That’s overstating the obvious!
I skimmed through that article and what stands out for this lifelong Chicagoan is ZERO mention of the majority of us that are trying to survive making a living by providing goods & services in a competitive economy? For CTU/Brandon & crew, press, academia, non-prf libtards, etc, most of whom are making upper-middle class incomes, your not even on their radar….your just supposed remain silent and pay the bill
those who don t learn history are doomed to repeat it
Can’t be said often enough. The older I get the more that I see it’s true, and that there’s nothing new under the sun. Don’t repeat past mistakes.
Johnson is a huge misstep by voters. So are the DSA aldermen. So is Preckwinkle, so was Foxx. Yet there they were/are, causing financial and social havoc. Blame voters too.
Not as big as the voters who elected him. Not counting the teachers who got the big raises of course
The mayor reminds me of a typical Dem when confronted with his failures- “ Let’s just move on.”. No accountability, no consequences and certainly no plan for not repeating the same boneheaded behavior. In fact, it seems that something even more ridiculous is on tap so as to make the previous snafu seem not all that bad.
In the words of former VP Harris, he’s not “… burdened by what has been.”
The philosophy of losers.