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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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When you’re bankrolling the DNC’s “Blue Wall” of Midwest, you can cakewalk into any damn appointed position you want. Let’s face it, the Pritzker Family has made damn sure to collect their chits, to take full advantage of what their millions buy in political patronage appointments. Every Illinois voter should read Gus Russo’s book on Chicago Mob and Pritzker family: “Super Mob”. Must read to understand the Pritzker family history, which is riddled with corruption and political cronyism. Now big JB wants the big prize for himself – 2024 DNC nomination. Mrs P now gets chance to measure for the… Read more »
Wonder if she will take out the toilets?
They better put some extra flooring support with the two tubbo’s walking around
She’s just like Jackie Kennedy.
Lol… I wonder what Nancy “Size Two” Reagan would say about “MK”…
She’s as much a porker as he is. The family must have a good chef. JB=Jumbo Belly.
Already picking out spots for family pictures and personal items, no doubt. Better be in tiptop shape for the Pritzker’s move-in.
JB will never be president. He’s likely polling in the near single digits like the rest of the pack.
If Biden runs and they dump Kamala, I’d say he’s a likely choice. Then who knows.
I’ll vote for George Santos if he runs. We all know he lies unlike other politicians that lie but believe they tell the truth.
And Jennifer gets an appointment in the cabinet. She checks all the right boxes and will help fill the coffer.
The R’s need to win at ALL COSTS.
There’s a slim chance that an extremely progressive obese billionaire member of the tribe gets promoted to national office. I don’t mean this in a derogatory way or as an attack on his religion, but this is the political reality, for the same reason Pete B was never going to be our first same gender attracted president either. If there’s an open primary in 2024, and D’s are running out of time if that’s the case with the first primaries less than a year away, there’s going to be a dozen progressives in a clown car looking to out clown… Read more »
JB is one of those guys who will run the train off the cliff, as he gets on the national stage as he talks about reparations, gender bending the kids and all the other whacky stuff he does. He, like all the rest of them, live in a liberal bubble, based in twitter, where they never hear a dissenting view and are completely unaware of how the other half of the country thinks.
Just to be clear, I’m suggesting this from a Democrat identitarian political perspective alone, not at all from an attack point of view. Three Homes Bernie from the same religion talking all kinds of really crazy progressive stuff, and winning some primaries. Billionaire Bloomberg tried to step into the race too and wasted a billion dollars of his own money for virtually no votes. Then there was the secret back room deal in South Carolina and put ‘moderate’ catholic Biden in the forefront and ultimately won (stole?) the election. The same will happen in 2024 if JB has any legs,… Read more »