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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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Great. We are now the laughing stock of England. Their crimes lower and they don’t let police have guns
Bandons performance was on par with morning Joes. Both looking to hold onto their jobs.
Look at that picture of Brandon looks like a deer staring into a oncoming car’s headlights
A good result of all the national and international attention to Chicago is that we have press covering what they should. This astonishing performance by Brandon Johnson has been ignored by the Illinois press but has now been reported in multiple outlets elsewhere.
I like how Trump and his administration’s so far gotten the Dems/media to come out and defend violent crime, criminal illegal alien gang members, and John Bolton…
In Johnson’s defense, about halfway through (48 sec) he does say “of course we want more detectives.” Also in his defense, the commentator has an apparent bias and/or ax to grind on the number of police officers in Chicago. I am not a supporter of Johnson, but his answers are not as outlandish as it’s being made to seem. Of course, we could talk about how “affordable” the affordable housing being constructed is, but I digress…
How does one defend Johnson’s hiring of blatantly anti- police staff? I think his handlers tell him on a daily basis what to say so as to appear somewhat anti- crime, but he is ultimately undone by his actions and the results thereof.
It is a hard to look like a pinhead during an overly liberal MSNBC (MSNOW) broadcast. But Brandon managed to do it. Same with Pritzker. Except now he may be doomed to stay in Illinois, because it is the only state in the nation where voters will put up with his complete incompetence.