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Call it Pritzkerville – eerily like Potterville from “It’s a Wonderful Life,” with pot stores and a massive casino planned to fill the holes ripped in Chicago due to the loss of great businesses and decent people pursuing their dreams."
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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Every time JB burps an angel loses its wings.
Why doesn’t anyone include Preckwinkle in these articles? She stays out of the limelight, but she’s prime mover with all this crap.
Straight from Madigan’s playbook.
Great article. However, I wonder if it’s to late – so many in NE IL seem brainwashed, like they can’t fathom what Chicago and IL would be w/o corrupt leftist Democrats running the show. I mean, just look how Pritzker and Democrats are obsessed with late term abortion and infanticide – they are so extreme. And yet people vote for them.
I suggest we rename it Hobbesville after that long gone English philosopher who wrote about the kind of government which was necessary to keep life from becoming “nasty, brutish, and short.”
Or call it Unionville
True, but this is coming from a member of the IL Republican party, who offer no credible alternative to Jumbo Belly.
Democrats are transforming Illinois into a progressive utopia where progressive ideologies flourish. The progressive sees high crime not as a bad thing, but a good thing, because it means criminal justice equity.. They see shopping district blight as economic justice. They see an abandoned office towers as an opportunity for housing equity for unhoused residents. They see illegal immigration as the equitable solution to combat white supremacists colonialism. They see a school system trannying the children as equitable inclusion. I had a lib tell me that last night, they just want to make trans kids feel safe in school, as… Read more »
Leftist Democrats are a cult now, with their pagan ‘gods’. What happened during Covidstan is proof enough.
Government is the God of the far left.
And abortion is their sacrament.