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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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Most embarrassing politician next to Joe bidum.
Never had an original thought in his life. Just being against everything the current administration does isn’t a platform. You have to be FOR something, be authentic and not an empty actor. He fails on all counts.
Trump has built sky scrapers, hotels and golf resorts. JB’s branch of the Pritzker family was thrown $$$ to stay away from the family biz!
Brand is right. Waddles is a brand, just like socialist millionaires AOC and Crack Pot Bernie. For the black folks, we got Crockett. For the alphabet crowd, South Bend Pete. Choose your favorite brand, Dems. Pepsi or Coke?
can anybody name one thing where he said NO to the machine?
SMUG. Exhibiting or feeling great or offensive satisfaction with oneself or with one’s situation; self-righteously complacent.
The only words that came to mind or maybe another SMIRK as in the CEO Martin Shkreli Smirk to Congress.
To smile in an annoying self-satisfied manner.
To smile in an affected or conceited manner; to smile with affected complaisance; to simper
I think critics of Trump are better off without him.
By Pritzker’s biggest suck-up in the Illinois media, Shia Kapos.