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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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Representative Government is dead in the USA. Convince me I am wrong.
Evanston should be ashamed of Rep. Gabel. In the hearings on SB1169 she can’t even answer questions – she has some lady barking instructions in her ear all night. Who did her constituents vote for? A parrot? Seems so. This state is run by incompetence.
Democraps are spawn of the devil. Since when does anything effect the way they vote? Clearly the people who responded to the issue didn’t want it but the agenda was set so FU.
Something tells me the 600 proponents vs. 48,200 opponents statistic will NOT be reported in the main stream media.
How did things ever get this bad?
***—there were 660 proponents of the change, but more than 48,200 opponents.—***
Yeah, our elected officials work for us and do the will of the people…
The (D)’s have single digit leads in the house & senate, yet claim they have a mandate from the people…
Isn’t there something in the Illinois Constitution that says when laws are made they should benefit all people or at the very least most of them. Many laws are geared to a select few.
Check out the preamble and see if laws are made to represent all the citizens
https://www.ilga.gov/commission/lrb/conp.htm
The Illinois Communist Party of Politicians are drooling with glee at the unbridled havoc they are going to rein in on you and your Children’s lives now that the Right to Conscience bill is gone!
Shameful!
It isn’t over yet, don’t let your voice be silenced. It is going to the Illinois House today and then Senate.
Your voice has been silenced, is silenced, and will continue to be silenced. Thousands of Pro-Life demonstrators staged an insurrection in 2019 and took over the capitol in Springfield to protest against the morally bankrupt abortion bill. The massive protest wasn’t even given two seconds of news coverage in the Chicago area. It was completely ignored. The abortion bill passed along party lines. The one Democrat who voted ‘present’ instead of ‘yea’, a progressive and religious Rabbi from Skokie, was immediately rebuked by his own party. He was primaried the following year, and lost in March 2020 with only 32%… Read more »
So let it be written, so let it be done. When a government takes rights away from its citizens and yields to incompetence, it has passed a point of no return. Finish your exodus and don’t look back – the once great state of IL is just a shell of its former self.
You’re absolutely right. The hardest part to accept is that they want you gone.