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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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So, Bethany MaGee was on the receiving end of a political experiment?
Liberals are rotten citizens; have a look.
The lunatic with 70 arrests burned the poor girl’s scalp and eyelids off and that’s life she’s lucky enough to survive!! He was literally banned from a mental hospital because he was too dangerous. This isn’t an isolated act, this is systemic and statewide failure. Pritzker should resign.
There’s a video floating around out there about the Judge where she gives a speech saying in no uncertain terms that she uses her authority as an opportunity to let black and brown people go free. And now she’s the DEI judge that forever will be known for letting out of jail the guy who light a poor young white girl on fire on the CTA. But you know what? She doesn’t care. It might bother her a little, but more that she’s getting negative attention, rather than any sense of moral wrongdoing or believing that, yes, she made a… Read more »
Kinda late isn’t it?
These people do not care about the tax paying citizens of Illinois. Every move these two make introduces more risk and danger for 99% of the residents of Illinois, while protecting the criminals. Name one thing, one move, one comment, one idea, one bill that these two jackasses have done that positively impacts the average Illinois Resident. Don’t bother thinking…there is none.
Tweaking would only diminish the Governors Illinois values.
“train passenger fire”??
In other words, “Somebody did something to somebody”??
In other words……
Sometimes bills get passed and everybody that votes for it knows that a young girl has to be lit on fire within an inch of her life, before a trailer bill or a tweak needs to be made afterward.
Now Lucky wants to admit his stupidity. Too little, too late and your fitting for an orange ( ironically ) jumpsuit awaits, Lucky. Don’t go fleeing to WI or FL as you did during your draconian covid lockdown.
Tweak this !! Recall the bill . Tell Tony Perwinkle to get ready . Crook County Jail is going to get filled with criminals!!
Tweedledee and tweedledum should really turn this into a win for themselves. Start a new
program on the CTA, purchase a fare and get a free fire blanket! Travel safe and comfortable.
Next month change it to a free bullet resistant
vest. Thousands will flock back to riding the
rails.
JB and Brandon literally don’t care. Neither of them will lose even a single Democrat vote over this. Normal leaders throughout history would turn this incident into an ‘all hands on deck’ incident, and they’d be rounding up every vagrant on the train post-haste flooding the CTA with cops in a show of force. Every city leader would say “This will never happen again” and ensure the CTA would be the safest place in Chicagoland. But instead, JB talks some nonsense about tweaking around the edges and Brandon calls it an isolated incident and asks that everyone basically forget what… Read more »