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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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Durbin is the scum of the earth. He does this only because he wants to improve the odds of future elections for his party. That’s it. Of course, this has zero chance of happening as others rightly point out. He might as well introduce a bill that outlaws rain and cancer. This is nothing but a stunt by the incredibly inept Do Nothing Dick Durbin. Take a nap Dick, you aren’t needed.
How moronic and pointless. Clearly little Dick hasn’t read the Constitution or he has read the Constitution but insists on worthless virtue signaling.
Dummy Durbin out there trying to abolish the electoral college when his party is out in the wilderness controlling none of the levers of power in DC. Dummy Durbin is certainly running for re-election again, he’s 80 years old, and he can spend the next 8 years pushing dumb bills like this, and tell his constituents that he’s the #Resistance
Durbin needs to go! Dems call electoral college un Democratic because Democratic states like CA, IL and NY cannot control the election. The electoral college held less populous state a voice in the election. Besides, Harris lost the popular vote. I don’t want the left states controlling the election, like Chicago controls IL so the rest of the states has no voice.
Be careful what you wish for. In Illinois, getting rid of one terrible politician usually results in the election of a different Democrat politician far, far worse.
Whac-A-Mole, it is.
Bet some Illinoisans not living in Cook County and Chicago would appreciate a state electoral college to shield them from the tyranny of county, city and state democrats dominating all issues and the state budget.
How about changing our system here to mirror the federal system somewhat? Change it to give each of the 102 counties in Illinois a state senator. Representatives to the state House can still be apportioned by population distribution, but balance that with geographical representation so that each county has equal “weight” in the state senate. I’ll never happen as long as the dem-socialists are in charge. But maybe, if there’s a rebirth after the state implodes, given its current trajectory, those survivors who remain can look at implementing a fairer system.
Not possible unless SCOTUS overturns Baker v. Carr and other rulings that require all state legislatures to have a “one person, one vote” system of representation, meaning all their districts must be population-based and not geographically based.
Spot on comment. The United States is a Republic and not a Democracy by design in the Constitution. The tyranny of the majority that is inflicted upon Illinois outside of Cook and Collar counties is the proof of the Founder’s wisdom (and proof of the idiocy of Dick Durbin). Churchill said it more clearly ” Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner”. Olds461 idea below of one state senator per county is a terrific idea to restore some balance to this twisted and perverted State.