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These aren’t your grandma’s Cold War–era pols. Inside Chicago’s far-far-left political wavelet.
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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What’s really amazing to me is in order to break the Machine, people voted socialist instead of thinking about running a free market Republican candidate and voting Republican. Lori Lightfoot is not an out of the closet socialist, but close-Fritz K our new assessor is also a socialist…..let the fairness in Chicago begin.
I see it as a testament to how education has been replaced with indoctrination.
It starts with indoctrination; and it becomes amplified by hate and twitter. I’m telling you, these democratic socialists are all over twitter and they all scream as loud as they can and try to one up each other. Some of them actually get into office. They bring with them their crazy ideas of nationalizing the public utilities and charging progressive rates. At least with Fox News the viewpoints are curated and presented in a meaningful manner; they’re just trying to capture what viewers want to hear. Twitter is the exact opposite – the place is an echo chamber and the… Read more »
100% truth. Just 20 years ago, they would have been laughed out of town (yes, even Chicago). Coincidentally, 20 years is how long it’s been since the last time I visited. Can’t think of any reason why I’d ever consider it again at this point.
Governance via Twitter opinion will result in the crazies running the asylum.