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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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Brandon is doing what the individual in Springfield tells him, funny thing Pritzker your ship is not going to sail at the DNC but sink and sink badly. Unfortunately 1968 will look like child’s play sadly, remember Pritzker you and your goon’s did this nobody else but you how can a individual of Jewish decent betray his own people such as you have.
It’s an interesting question: Are Pritzker’s chances of ever getting a Dem presidential nomination now reduced because he is Jewish? When he first showed interest in it I thought it might be an advantage because I thought America is ready (commendably) to accept a Jewish president, and he would be clever enough to patch over the schisms about Israel that then were minor. But now that things are hot he might take heat from both sides. First, as I think you are saying, he will be blamed for helping create the radical left that now isn’t exactly friendly to Jews.… Read more »
MONEY AND POWER……..IT’S A SICKNESS