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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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He means “illegal immigrants.”
Pritzker is absolutely disgusting. To look at and to hear.
Absolutely
Since he wants them and is going to protect them, the rest of the country should ship all the illegal aliens to Illinois. Those idiots would be more than happy to pay for them.
Some of them, including New York, already are
Typical politician, talks out both sides of his mouth! He’s backpedaling because he knows he’ll lose federal funding or go to jail if he resists!
Commodus Maximus is already backing down on his “ Happy Warrior “ tough rhetoric and Trumpeting isn’t even in the WH yet. More bloviating from a man throughly enchanted with his own mystique.
Chubby seems to have shifted a bit to acknowledge exceptions for criminal activity, which is good. What he should also say is that he wants police departments to initiate contact with ICE in such cases. He should also end the sanctuary state nonsense.
If Pritzker wants them, then he should pay for them.
At the expense of Illinois taxpayers of course Pritzker didn’t you get the message Americans have had enough of your leftist policies and political malfeasance, your political agenda has failed and you cannot stand the truth.
There will be hundreds of Guillermo Hortons in the hordes of illegal immigrants he protects. Enough is enough!
Pritzker and Leftist Democrats believe they are free to flaunt the laws the rest of us must abide by.
More thumbs down from a fellow “ Happy Warrior “ that, like his/ her/ their mentor never comes up with a meaningful response.