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He says, among other things, "But the Wall Street Journal, unfortunately they listen to the carnival barkers that are here in Illinois, the spelunkers for misery in Illinois, and they cite them in their editorials. They make no bones about the fact that they'll just take the made up stuff, the Facebook fakery, from those organizations in Illinois and publish them on the editorial pages of one of the great newspapers in the country, certainly one of the most successful ones. It's frustrating that they do that they don't seem to know much about Illinois."
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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Can there be an interview more lame than this? Pure softball. Brian Mackey is worthless.
What a ridiculous retard — doesn’t have an answer to his critics on the merits — so he vomits up the “right wing conspiracy” theory that Hillary pulled out of her ass — what a fraud
The flak is heaviest when you are over the target. Pritzker’s explosion of verbal flatulence seems to indicate that the facts, figures and truth furnished by Wirepoints is hitting the mark.
Hum, J B Pritzker you just called me a carnival barker you just violated your new doxing law, hum ho.
It’s hard to believe that the bloviating bully Pritzker is what people in IL want – but it is. Democrats are largely a cult. Very softball interview, and Pritzker still seemed to get agitated by question that pushed a little.
I am afraid Illinois is doomed. The environmental spending to the level they have expanded to is unsustainable and just as much of a waste as spending what they do on Public Schools and Government Pension programs. There is no measurement, no real governance. Its a popular gimmick of the moment. One of the funny parts of his statements was that he believes the state needs to get the old polluting vehicles off the road. Got news for you fat man…my old V8 Tahoe is still running great and I have no intension of replacing it just because YOU think… Read more »