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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 don’t like where Pritzker is: in the United States!
JB just doesn’t know what to do. He has to be feeling like the crown is his, if only the Biden Crime Family would step aside. He would even be willing to write a big old check to help them make a decision. The left is panicking, and the infighting is getting ugly. The media is working overtime spreading BS by the ton. Trying desperately to connect Trump to extremist groups and coming up with polls that deny what everybody in the Dem Party seems to know. It’s going to be a bumpy ride. If Trump gets in, the rotund… Read more »
Don’t forget Zippy getting a terminal case of
The vapors
Governor WIDE-LOAD doesn’t like where we are. He’d rather be in the kitchen licking the cookie jar.
Good ol Jay Robert pushes the dagger into his buddies back. He now sees himself in the
State dining room with a half side of aged
Beef all for him!
Pritzker lies like Biden. He says Trump is for a nationwide abortion ban. Trump has come out several times and said he opposes a nationwide abortion ban. Typical Pritzker, but IL residents buy it.
Not me…..TRUMP has proved for 4 years he would do what he promised even with the radical dems fighting him all the way and lying about him…….JP has lied about everything for as long as he’s been around!!