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"And Pritzker is not exactly Barack Obama, charisma-wise, either. But he knows where to find the right chords on the old pipe organ."
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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Esquire is amplifying the “problem is in the messaging” theme. Or Hopium 2.0. Either way, progressives keep showing they have no grasp of reality.
Are people supposed to pay for content like this? what is the point? Who is even the target market for fluff pieces that bootlick billionaires?
Remember when Esquire was a magazine for men.
Now it’s a blog for beta-cuck pajama boys
There are two comments:
“Thanks for recognizing our governor. He may not be Barack Obama, but he has governed quite well. I will be proud to vote for him again. And Illinois was pretty well in the dumps after Blago and Rauner finished with us. Plus, he knows where Goreville is! One of the prettiest places on earth!”
“i live in ill he is the best gov we have ever had do not take him away from us”
That remind me why I moved out of Silly-nois.
Spot on comment. I ended my Esquire subscription three or four years ago. They changed editors and the new editor was a timid, castrated, self loathing, apologist for being born male. It used to be a great magazine . For men. Now its a waste of paper pulp catering to the castrati of the millennial generation. Just like that generation: Good riddance. The world will little notice your existence and will be a better place when you are gone.