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The WSJ’s readers marvel at what possible strategy could motivate Springfield’s fiscal malpractice. Read the LTE’s here
Read more from Wirepoints:
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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5D Chess? JB cant even play checkers. Let alone old fashioned Chess. JB will eagerly pay someone else to play for him and claim the victory.
Mark and Ted, You do great work outlining the deficiencies in the policies of the Democratically controlled City of Chicago, County of Cook, and the State of Illinois. Fortunately, Pritzker as no record of accomplishment to run on. He has absolutely nothing substantive to hang his hat on. The national and local Democrats are captured by a reflexive far left identity ideology and drunk on power. They actually have no interest in true far left policies like jobs, health care, child care, good schools, safe streets. They are content to hand out crumbs to the people so they can funnel… Read more »
PresidentTrump is providing that “true populist alternative” that speaks to the “common man” by making deals to increase job creation. His grand strategy of lifting up citizens through trade is the heart of conservatism and it is exactly what a “populist” party should do. As a result of the deals he is making, billions of dollars from private manufacturers around the world are investing in domestic manufacturing expansion. This benefits the working and middle classes. All of this is clearly stated in the OBBB as well: freeing us from tax increase, and freeing business from suffocating regulations that sap our… Read more »
Ted’s conversation on WTTW:
https://news.wttw.com/2025/07/08/democrats-warn-medicaid-cuts-could-impact-330k-illinois-residents-republicans-say-waste
Governor Happy Meal Warrior navigating a chess board? A charcuterie board, yes. A chess board…LOL!!!!! NO!
JB will never stop buying votes, at the taxpayers expense.
When the Wall Street Journal puts the gub under scrutiny and prints scathing reviews , it will put a huge damper on ever seeing the White House. PAC money reads those articles . Those donors don’t make stupid mistakes.
I thought it was a Babylon Bee headline. I doubt Pritzker has the capacity to play 2D chess let alone 5D! LOLx1000.
I think JB’s pension shenanigans are just a way to distract us from the Epstein files
Enough with the EFs! Don’t even care about them. I want to hear about the Obama Hoax scandal. signed real MAGA
Get real, if there was any real damaging GOP Biden would have released it, Hillary and Bill are CLEARLY in the files with others the Democrats don’t want to expose. This Epstein thing is the only thing the Democrats have to try and divide the MAGA wave of sanity for the country.
This supporter of President TRUMP knows he has nothing to hide, and I know he’ll release them when the time is right. If I’m Joe Biden, I’m thinking about how I’m going look in prison orange! TRUMP 2028!