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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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Work for the citizens who pay your salary, Pritzker and boot the Illegal aliens out of the state of Illinois for citizens and business safety and tax dollars.
Old-money billionaire JB Pritzker seems to have a knack for public spats with “new money” billionaires. His most high-profile clash was with Ken Griffin, the Citadel founder, before Griffin relocated from Illinois. Adding insult to injury, Pritzker reportedly snapped up Griffin’s last Chicago condo at a steep discount—a move some saw as a jab. More recently, Pritzker has traded barbs with Elon Musk, escalating in early 2025 when Musk mocked Pritzker’s physique on X after Pritzker criticized Musk’s hand gesture at a Trump inauguration rally, likening it to a Nazi salute. Pritzker also took aim at Richard Uihlein, the Uline… Read more »
Good luck kicking ICE out of Chicago. Supremacy clause of the Constitution says otherwise dummy!
He doesn’t want the national guardians to clean up crime because it will make him look incompetent for his presidential run. He should focus on cleaning up the state. He and the IL Dems put criminals before law abiding US citizens. And he doesn’t want his illegal voters deported. He isn’t for voter ID because the illegals would not be able to vote for him and other IL Dems.
the only one that’s a thug in illinois is pritzker.
When someone tells you they are not afraid…they are afraid.
It would be a better world if the cops just handed the criminals that are illegal over to ICE.work together please
That was the plan, but Pritzker put a stop on it! Now the illegals that just want to work are getting swept up in all of it. Careful what you vote for!
What a bloated, bloviating blowhard! I can’t remember the last time he said anything substantive about governing the state. All he ever does is whine about the feds (who wouldn’t be in Chicago if he didn’t roll out the expensive welcome mat that we are all paying for)..
Big talk from a big Putz 200 miles away. Lets his minions do his fighting
The sooner the better, they use Gestapo tactics. America should be ashamed of itself.
Legitimate criticisms of ICE are undermined by irresponsible, incendiary comments like calling it gestapo.
How did all these people get here in the first place? Specifically to Chicago? Can you say “Sanctuary State”? It drew them like moths to a flame!
You sully and dishonor the memory of all the innocent people who were the real victims of the Gestapo during the Holocaust.
6 MILLION innocent people were murdered, but you flippantly use them as a trivial talking point to feed your insecurities as a leftist, since your ideology is not based on objective truth.
It’s YOU who should be ashamed! You lefties always have to bring up your brothers in arms, the German National Socialists, since projection is all you have left when you have no facts on your side.
If only Pritzker was this passionate about ridding the state and especially Chicago of crime, improving the schools, pension reform, prosecuting corruption, and running an efficient state government.if only IL voters would wake up.
Oh THAT won’t get him on TV.
But that would require work instead of constant virtue signaling which requires little effort and even less thought.
Hey – He’s protecting “his people”! The illegal aliens! Not American citizens!
Lying POS saying the helicopter landed in the roof of the building !!! ARRESTED 34 gang members at the building THEY TOOK OVER !!!
The hardest part is when JB Pritzker said they have to come through me. 😀
IL is a national disgrace and embarrassment.
What a tough guy. I love it when the lefties brag about how they are not afraid. Senator Spartacus, JB– they really have Noem shaking in her boots I bet.