-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
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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Never trust a politician and never vote Democrat.
Exactly what are those ‘metrics’ again? Oh, no specifics?
More of the same.
Throw off those darned masks and reclaim your right to breathe free!
If people who had the common cold would stop running to the covid hut to get tested the numbers would go down.
Do Not Trust them. I could see them walking it back and extending it again. That is what we have seen time and again throughout some States and other Countries. They have been blatantly lying and gaslighting.
They’ll just change to a different metric that allows them to impose their will.
The smart thing to have done economically was remove all the mandates prior to Super Bowl weekend and opening up sports bars and restaurants to everyone. In turn, benefitting city and state coffers with sales and tax revenue. Instead our illustrious Governor of Disaster sneaks in his CV19 proclamation on Feb. 4th 2022 most likely prompted by the current adminstration’s carrot-stick promise of future $$$ bailouts. Pritzker’s mayoral sidekick “if I only had a brain” Lightsout goes along with the revenue killing weekend. You’d think they would know how this Charlie Brown and Lucy football ‘promise’ turns out.
Lightfoot and JB You are losing your power! LOL
History will not be kind to either
Always “…if”
The Big Prize is making the Communist Government of Chicago
Get Rid of Vaccine Passes!