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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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No one out-pizzas The Hutt!
Aww…man…sorry, sorry, sorry. Couldn’t help it.
NP. I’ll let myself out.
You are a good commenter when you stick to substance. Chill on the fat jokes, please.
Making JB look like a victim is just pathetic. His vitriol is ignored when slung toward Republicans and yet, Republicans are held to a different standard. He gets what he sows when spewing hateful comments. They both should apologize for acting like kindergarteners.
Bailey’s point is valid.
On the other hand, Democrats/socialists/communists are trying to transform the USA into a totalitarian society, “by any means necessary.” Their idol Saul Alinsky wrote “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
We must defeat the Democrats/socialists/communists. Don’t bring a squirt gun to a gun fight!
It’s taking the high road. And it give some indication how he might govern.
Let’s honor all people. Disagree freely with ideas, but honor all.
The weight jokes are lazy quips (we’ve all made a few), the hard part is keeping up with all the fiscal and cultural destruction Pritzker has caused.
I agree with Bailey on this.
Mark, I believe this a perfect example of what is called “parody”.
Look at the artwork. It’s so “cartoony” and “over the top”, it’s hardly “mean spirited” at all. If this is to be demonized, then we better cancel the annual “Al Smith Dinner” in NYC that Always features speeches where politicians “roast” each other. :-/
JB Pritzer can straight up call Republicans fascists, nazis and murders, but when a Republican jokingly calls a Republican fat, oh no, that’s too far.
Spineless GOP. They deserve to lose.