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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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Only IL Democrats could see that failing IL schools need more sexually explicit books in the lirary
Speaking of Guv’nor Pig Pork: Pritzker addresses NU grads “People who are cruel view vulnerable people as rungs on a ladder to get what they want, Pritzker said…” https://evanstonnow.com/pritzker-addresses-nu-grads/ “Young people need to develop an “idiot detection system,” Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker told graduates at Northwestern University’s 165th commencement ceremony Monday. Pritzker said the easiest way to spot an idiot is to “look for the person who is cruel,” because empathy and compassion are evolved traits. People who are cruel view vulnerable people as rungs on a ladder to get what they want, Pritzker said, and ultimately they fail in… Read more »
“Wise” words from a over-privileged, over-judgmental, and over-simplistic rich jerk.
He is unbelievably out of touch with those of us he governs.
Right at home at Northwestern though. I’m sure it was well received.
The Federalist had an excellent idea.
Governor Pritzker should read from some of the books that were on the shelf behind him. On camera. Without edit. And hold the book up to show all the illustrations. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris should do the same.
Hey downvote, why shouldn’t they be proud to read these books to the voting public?
These ghouls believe they are the good guys. They’re grooming an entire generation of sexual predators.