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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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And now Hinz has an outright lie up, saying on Twitter that Tucker Carlson is the source of the story. He is not. https://twitter.com/GregHinz/status/1706357919850049646
WHY NOT BUILD A PLANT IN ANOTHER COUNTRY. BUILD AND PUT NUKES IN IT AND BLOW UP A MAJOR CITY. TROJAN HORSE AND THE ART OF WAR
Hinz is the worst of the left wing fake news fraud hacks at Crain’s
Gotion is promising the world right now, having built a plant in Germany, a country in the middle of deindustrialization, Morocco and now in Illinois. Who knows what other plans they have going on and what other promises they are making. I’m truly doubtful this plant ever gets built especially considering how lackluster EV sales are other than Tesla.
CCP may be a red herring.
The real issue is local zoning laws (public safety and emissions permissions) and water-mining rights.
A quick practical action of self-defense available to local citizens is to find instances whereby local government bodies may have violated OMA (Open Meetings Act). Meetings by public bodies are typically required to be notice-posted and public comment allowed. Meetings may be defined as incuding emails or telephone calls.
CCP is a “red herring”? Gotion is directly tied to the CCP and has a joint venture with the Chinese military.
Red Herring (pun intended) meant to indicate that if people want to actually do something constructive in self-defense, they should go see the thing that the bad guys are misdirecting away from. That critical component, the thing (remember Al Capone liable for tax evasion rather than murder?) that the Pritzker-esques are fudging their drawers trying to distract from, is the very real CIVIL RIGHTS of citizens in Manteno Illinois whose elected bodies (zoning, environmental, municipal, TIF, etc.) must comply with Illinois Statutory requirements of OMA. May not prevent Pritzker-esques’ sodomy, but may slow them down a while while they are… Read more »
The OMA issue is one that we want to look at. If anybody knows whether it was violated here please share. It’s important, but, IMO, not as important as other Gotion matters.
It is a practical, do-able self-defense that works when petty burgermeisters are cozened by those who use them as useful idiots to strip-mine local resources from unwitting villagers.. Very simply, any quorum of any public body which conducted clandestine talks (including phone calls and emails and letters, doesn’t need to be face to face in a darkened room) without proper public notice can have such dead-of-the-afternoon agreements clawed back until proper OMA-compliant notices/public hearings are conducted. Possibly, public officials may be recalled if their violations were egregious. Locals may be able to get to next election time and elect Village… Read more »
“burgermiesters”. I love that. I see our big boy guv as the guy from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Only Illinois would be shitty, shitty, bang bust.
Crain’s has devoted almost entire paper to EV articles?, all of which attempt to paint a very rosy picture of Gotion plant in JBs Illinois and avoid issues of why so few EV plants are opening in northern blue union states
There is NOTHING rosey about EV. It’s a Rich Man’s toy and never for the masses. We cannot charge up all these cars now nor in the future as we destroy our coal fired electrical generation plants.