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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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I composed a strongly worded but polite letter to Pritzker, Durbin, Duckworth and my Illinois Legislature representatives, asking them to stop their partisan antics, pointing out that their brand is losing market share, and calling on them to work for the common good.
I suggest that everyone do the same. The Democrats are trying to make it seem like everyone is against Trump, so let them know that is incorrect!
One of my (Democrat) Illinois Legislature people has not engaged in this partisanship, so I instead sent that person a letter of thanks.
Here are contact emails:
https://gov.illinois.gov/contact-us/voice-an-opinion.html
https://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/email
https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/connect/email-tammy
JB actually did publish the list of “100 Days and 100 Ways: How Trump and Republicans are Hurting Illinois.” It contains links to reports of the 100 items. Some of us here might doubt that Illinoisans are actually being hurt by the actions (many of which are just proposals). For instance,”SBA will relocate its Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, New York City, and Seattle regional offices out of sanctuary cities and into more accessible communities.” If they’re more accessible, what’s the objection? (btw, the site he published on, https://gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com/, is not a State site but perhaps is paid for by the… Read more »
Is Pritzker pining for a return to the days of unrest like the BLM days the Democrats seemed to love so much?
Vote him out. He’s not for the majority if IL taxpayers. He’s for illegals, criminals and identity politics.
Pritzker, Walz & Hochel, eh? Thing 1, thing 2, and thing 3 screaming at the universe while providing such bad governance in their own states is rich with irony. Especially with our favorite inherited billionaire who is operating the state directly opposite how real billionaires who earned their money by building businesses operate. He plays generously with other peoples money while storing his in the Caymans. Exactly the guy we don’t need.
Watch your mouth, Waddles. If everyone in IL showed up to picket you and your cronies progressive/ left wing crap, it’d be 1/6 all over again. You’re a moron.
I think the Gub has lost his s##t. He’s sounding like a mad man
Feds shouldn’t increase the minimal wage they should eliminate it. This is clearly a state, maybe even a county, responsibility since it’s so dependent on the local cost of living. What you need to live (survive) in New York City would probably be more than what the mayor of most towns in MS would make. It’s also supply and demand, the most successful to way to run everything, they should quit screwing with it. If people will only work for 50 cents or 50 dollars that’s what you have to pay them. States can set their own but the fed… Read more »
They use the federal minimum wage to set income boundaries for welfare benefit qualifications and freebies. They usually use some multiple of the current hourly amount. I think your comment addresses why the federal government hasn’t bothered to change it.
“Everybody has to get up, stand up, speak out, show up.” Gov.
LepetomanePritzgerUnless you show up at my door…
Then I’ll use the full weight (pun intended) of my power to crush you…
“Dare! Dare!”
Exactly what is everybody supposed to protest? Inflation is down, gas prices, egg prices are down, the border is sealed and gang members are being deported. Medicare, SS, Medicaid, are not being cut, just waste and inefficiencies that will make the programs more efficient. The Brownshirts are not marching down my streets. The tariff situation is to be determined, a long term process. Compare this 100 days to Biden’s first 100 when millions poured across the border.
It is funny every time he (and the other Democrats within the state and in Washington) says “we need to fight”, He says we need to “Get up, Stand up, Speak out and Show up” for what? To protest his and the State of Illinois Legislatures every single move? That I’d fight for,, but I fear that’s not what he is talking about. I can’t figure out what he is talking about and neither does most of the Country.
Protest that the Red State bailouts have stopped for IL!?
JB and his Presidential campaign will have his brownshirts toss as many molotov cocktails as possible as long as he gains the national media attention that he craves.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the combined estimated resident population of the livestream’s four governors’ states (IL, MA, MN and NY) fell by 100,000 from 2020 to 2024 while the rest of the country rose by 8.6 million. And they seriously expect us to listen to them?
JB the Hutt is accurate in his descriptions of the Brownshirts’ activities in 1930’s Germany, but he fails to see it is his calls for violence that echo those of the SA from the same time frame. It is the violence he is fomenting that will similarly echo history.
If a Red State governor made the same calls for physical action during the Biden years, the media would be sounding the alarms 24/7. Their current silence speaks to their assent.
All three of them?