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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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Pritzker just loves a good old fashioned abortion. He isn’t picky either, as to my knowledge there isn’t any type of abortion he would ban, including late term or live birth. He is practically giddy when talking about abortion, with a huge grin on that gigantic melon of his. You can be pro life or pro choice, but there’s nothing normal about an individual who smiles ear to ear when talking about such a topic. Of course, JB also loves talking about children transitioning. A weird one for sure.
Like I said here before I hope Pritzker is charged with murder of the unborn
From the background a plan erupts that Pritzker’s wife still has plans for him should Harris lose. Unfortunately should that happen we in Illinois will suffer four more years of assorted costly unfeasible programs designed to do no more than entice the feelings of the radical far left side of the Democrat party for Pritzker’s Presidential run and so many of us had hopes he would politically sort of fade away…