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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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“…can a billionaire—especially one born into wealth—really be the champion of a party that’s spent the last decade railing against economic oligarchy?” Jesus Mesa’s question is a farcical one, especially when asked in regard to a similarly farcical trust fund baby who routinely ranks among the worst of the worst governors in America. How anyone could take the Hutt seriously after what he and his henchmen have done to Illinois is an indictment of what passes for journalism in 2025. Noted DNC(SA) Oberführer Creamer is correct only about one thing: The complete lack of leadership in the Democrat Party. This vacuum… Read more »
The craziest part of this absurdly delusional article is that somehow in some universe that Working Class folks would be endeared to JB. How galactically out of touch are these so called journalists that they would submit this wishful idea?
Run that tyrannical piece of excrement, please. Outside of a few low iq states like Illinois he will crash and burn spectacularly. His brand of bolshevism pops up every few decades and beaten back into the scum pit it emerged from by liberty loving Americans every time. A national flame out for that Hindenburg-esque blimp might be the only way to rid our state of this leftist dictator.
Pritzker is a hypocrite-wants to tax the rich while he hides a lot of his wealth in offshore accounts. The Hyatt hotels are also not friendly to its low income workers. Lots of strikes by housekeepers, etc. over the years.Time for someone, not the MM, to do a deep dive into his finances and toilets.
The Pritzker family, aside from hotels, made a fortune [deleted].
Marko, you would need to add some substantiation to that claim to make that comment. I am aware of none.
Castle Bank & Trust in the Bahamas was a mob run bank of which the Pritzker family, Hyatt board members and mafia figures moved large amounts of money through in the 1960s-70s to avoid taxation, the bank sought celebrities and other high net worth individuals to cater too. This is the stuff of conspiracy theories and international intrigue no doubt. The investigations into the bank were shut down rumored by the CIA itself. You can read about it in Gus Russo’s book “Supermob” which is mostly about Sidney Korshak and the mob ties of families like the Pritzker’s.
OK, I will leave it to readers since I am not familiar with those allegations, which also appear here: https://patch.com/illinois/chicago/classifieds/other/309866/the-pritzker-crime-family-documented
It’s a great book!
https://www.amazon.com/Supermob-Korshak-Criminal-Associates-Americas/dp/B001FA23R2
Please. Please. Please. Please make it true!!! The Genius of JB must be spread across America!!! Please JB spend all $3.7 Billion of your daddy’s money chasing this dream. Do it!
i agree! JB Pritzker is the perfect candidate to lead the Democrat Party. His mismanagement skills are legendary. I’m sure Democrat leaders would be excited and supportive of JB to make the entire country mirror Illinois. Tim Walz should be considered!
Remember one thing about Pritzker, he’s a great liar and Hippocrate
Vote Pritzker out!
Big Boi hasn’t had GOP oppo research turned on him quite yet but that is coming and his record in IL will be exposed nationally. Incredible budget expansion, multiple tax increases, buying IL Supreme Court seats, attempting to buy WI Supreme Court seats, etc. He will easily be lumped in with Newsom, Hochel, Walz, Wittmer and positioned as exactly the kind of big spending hyper “progressive” squad whose policies opened the door to Trumps win. Democrats need new horses.
Illinois being a shithole is national news, he doesn’t stand a chance.
“Working class” and “Pritker” don’t mix.
Nor do AOC, Crackpot Bernie and other assorted Dem millionaires and breaking a sweat work, but they threw the Marxist, anti- capitalist squeaker Hogg out. As with rabid animals, one never knows what Dems will do
You are dreaming Creamer. The only place a guy like JB with his out of date hard leftie schpiel works is in a state such as Illinois where an inner city/minority/union cabal rules. And there are only two or three of them. He won’t play well in most of the US, including in many of the moderate blue states. He gets a lot of press now because he has the biggest mouth and says the most outrageous things, but when the press and the public start listening to him he will blow away like a dried leaf in October.
When JB’s lips are moving he’s lying!!
Why is Creamer even walking around as a free man? He is and was behind some of the most disturbing political violence this nation has seen in generations. He is literally the DNC’s Ernst Rohm sending violent brown shirts into the streets to sew chaos.