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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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This was puked into my email inbox this morning from Climate Cleric Rep. Bill Foster:
After the redistricting process, the new 11th District spans across eight different counties. As I always say, if you drive 45 minutes from O’Hare in any direction, you’ll end up somewhere in our district… or Lake Michigan.
This is an direct acknowledgment of the illegal Gerrymandering that pervades Illinois, right from a direct beneficiary of this Gerrymandering.
this is the deal that the states agreed to when they joined the union. Do they get to leave if the deal changes?
According to Abraham Lincoln, the answer is No, no they cannot leave, ever. It cannot be undone.
The solutions to this is electoral colleges by districts or counties in each state.
And until Illinois can elect 18 democrats out of 17 districts, nobody will notice or care.
I think that Illinois should have a map for US senators- one for Chicago, and one for the rest of the state.
IL has long been an adverse climate for fair politics.
Turnout won’t fix Illinois’s problem. An 8 point shift to the right did nothing, nothing at all, to change the state’s political situation.
Overall, you are correct. But it would make some difference for some areas of the state. My 17th Congressional district for example. However, this is increasing a non-White state and that means DEM control.
This piece is totally on target but will be ignored and/or dismissed by the MSM as it is dominated by the Left. It does not fit their agenda.