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Mayor Brandon Johnson said the Windy City is the most "pro-worker" city in the U.S., but faces "hostility" from Washington. "The fact that the President of the United States of America is cutting off food supply and medicine to working people and families across this country — that is an act of war," Johnson fumed.
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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When I hear people invoke the “Hitler/Nazi/Third Reich” analogies, I know two things: 1. they have absolutely no knowledge of 19th/20th century world history, and 2. they’ve never met and talked to anyone who actually lived during that period. Because if they had, they would be ashamed about making the comparison.
I think he’s a little angry because someone just reminded him he no longer has Summers off.
You know Leftist Dems like Pritzker and Johnson have nothing when they start the ‘Nazi, Hitler, 3rd Reich, etc’ bloviating vs PDJT. PDJT is ‘The Hammer’ and he sees turds like Pritzker and Johnson as nails. How low can Chicago and IL go?
DJT has lots of nails if you haven’t noticed. You might be next. Hammers are inconsequential without nails in his world.
Trump loves playing the hammer just as the school yard bully loves the timid, well behaved kid. What they have in common is the core need to feel superior in some obvious to rid them of their sense of inadequacy. Such bullies are incapable of treating most people they encounter with respect. They “know more than the generals”. “Nobody can believe” how smart they are. Meanwhile the rest of us are wondering if they can even read, preferring constant bluster over thought. We’re told now that Trump’s advisors are devising what might be called “special education” strategies to entice him… Read more »
And how does this relate to Johnson’s governance, other that it gives you an emotional release?
Brandon, time to put on your big boy pants and make some hard financial decisions.
If the mayor is truly pro-worker and has created opportunities for good-paying jobs through education and support, why is there still such a significant need for free food and medical assistance?
Again Mayor Johnson displays his ineptness. Why would we not want to know how, why and where the government spends our tax dollars. As team Musk advised, “if we ran our businesses like the federal government does theirs, we would be in jail!”
Moron.
You just set a new “thumbs up per word commented” record.
People like Johnson better hope the midterms do not go against the current administration because if they do I foresee a lot of problems for his constituents come the time when begging for Federal bailout funding comes.
My fellow EHS alumni is a total failure, did Elgin High School hool teach him anything?
Can’t help but think his dad’s church fueled his white hate?
DOGE saving taxpayer money and eliminating waste and fraud IS an act of war if you are public sector union scum like JB and his CTU masters. These piglets parasites never want to be pulled from the teat of stolen money. The war is the Public Sector Union Scum versus the Taxpayers. Let this war begin. In the words of William Tecumseh Sherman: “War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.”
Has Mayor Cliff Notes ever had a real job in a position of responsibility?
Yes, but those in the same position have developed evading responsibility and blaming others into an art form. BJ is just taking it to the next level.
I’m considering a change. Maybe I’ll start referring to this buffoon as ‘Mayor Turd Reich’.
In the war between Johnson and Trump–let’s see–who do we think will win? And whose city is going to pay the price for this boneheaded strategy of fighting the federal government.
I really wish someone would switch Banjos chapstick with crazy glue. He’s an embarrassment
will the village that lost its idiot please come and claim him.
Not surprised that this polished turd chose two professions rife with the ignorant and delusional- teaching and politics.
I know people whose entire careers were in public grammar or high school teaching. Such people tend to be far left and out of touch with reality. They would never bite the public union hand that continues to feed them in retirement, even if doing so would help children or taxpayers.
Johnson is borderline illiterate, just as 25% of Cook County. Listening to Johnson address Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Push, on AM 1690, he called the hospitality industries tradition of tipping “a vestige of slavery” I couldn’t believe what I had just heard.
The Chicago metro area’s 4.8% unemployment rate in April ranked in the bottom fifth of the country’s 387 metro areas, but Brandon the CPS teacher is so raggedy, he thinks his city is “pro-worker”.
To BJ, the only ‘worker” is a public sector union bloodsucking tick. Everyone else is an enslaved source of funding for the ticks.
The term itself is the problem. “Worker” is Marxspeak. The correct term is ’employee’. I’d use ‘worker’ to describe someone on a government payroll whereas an employee would be in the private sector.
Mayor Turd Reich is certainly a friend to the workers but has alienated the employers. With less employers, there are less employees, except for the ‘workers’ at the NITA/ex-RTA, where no one should be paid off, despite the loss of 40% of their customers.
johnson is a failure as a mayor and a failure as a man. He is suffering terribly from the Trump Derangement Syndrome. Another clown elected by the dumbest voters in America
This snapperhead is an embarrassment to Chicago.