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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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Progressives can brag about electoral wins, but they can’t point to any positive results from their policies.
Yet the people in Illinois keep voting for them. What does that say about the ILGOP?
Redistricting Report Card for IL.
Grade: F
https://gerrymander.princeton.edu/redistricting-report-card?planId=recVPQuH6bmq0dNWQ
Not one statewide office was won by the ILGOP. Gerrymandering or not, the ILGOP doesn’t get enough votes state wide.
Extreme gerrymandering reduces turnout for the party out of power. They’ve done studies on this. That’s why swing states get high turnout but states like IL get low turnout. The other side doesn’t even bother trying. JB’s win was called the moment the polls closed. Why even bother as a Republican voting? At least Trump motivated some reluctant voters to IL come out, even if they knew Trump would lose IL, because they wanted to vote for him. Bailey got Trump’s endorsement at the last minute and 700,000 Trump voters couldn’t be bothered to show up. Not that it would… Read more »
It says the voters have been indoctrinated for generations in public schools that are little more than progressive madrasas. Koolaid for all!