-- 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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Whenever Durbin participates in some momentous photo op, he’s always surrounded by career skulks and known career freeloaders; the elite of the shtbg class. He’s unnaturally fat for a weasel.
Or poor little Dick Durbin. Just a pathetic poser with no value to add to this discussion. Remember when he was pushing to increase the federal tax on gasoline when oil had come back down under the last administration? Never one to miss an opportunity to milk the public, he was hoping no one would notice. Now with oil on the way back up, he’s a two time loser. Can’t raise the tax and about to get bludgeoned in the midterms because of high prices, including gasoline. It’s the economy stupid!
OPEC is comprised of 23 member nations mostly in the Middle East and North Africa. Doesn’t Durbin realize his racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic rants are getting people killed? The huge increase in violent attacks against people from OPEC nations is directly related to Durbin’s stirring of the racial pot.
It’s long past time for Dickie to retire.
How is OPEC responsible for the high Illinois gas taxes, including taxing the tax that’s paid! Durbin is blaming OPEC because their skin is darker than his
Between his ears it’s extremely dark and empty like a void.
This idiot Durbin is upset at OPEC? It escapes his tiny brain that maybe he should do what he can to try and increase production of petroleum here in the USA and we would not have to even think about OPEC. ? This goes for all the Green pollyanna Leftist fools in Congress!
America was energy independent when Trump was President
Brain Dead Durbin Blames OPEC For Gas Price Spike — Instead Of His Own President And Party That Have Shut Down US Oil Production
My guess is he couldn’t do connect the dots as a kid and now couldn’t read a map