-- 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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All of Illinois will reopen the day that Biden is inagurated. This entire Whuan Virus economic shutdown has been a scam to crush small businesses, help big business and prevent Trump’s re-election. Period.
I don’t understand, all the restaurants in Lockport where I live are serving, we eat out for breakfast every Sunday and again during the week for a dinner or two. Whats hokey is nobody at a table has masks, yet walking the 20 feet from the hostess to your table people have the masks on. Like the Covid germ knows if you’re sitting at the table it wont bother you, but watch out if you are walking across the room 18 inches past a row of 10 booths! Covid must be one very smart thing, it knows if you’ve been… Read more »
Certainly you don’t understand.You must not be a Democrat elitist like Lightfoot and Pritzker, so don’t trouble your little mind. Just trust the all-knowing elected politicians. They know better. It’s science and its complicated and, frankly, is below your pay grade. Just pay your taxes and say thank you.
Mass defiance is the solution. He can’t shut everyone down. Owners need to take a stand before its too late.
It has not been a law that places close.
And Pigster wonders why people are leaving Illiois.
RESIST! Resistance is patriotic!!