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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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And the idiots he calls his constituents eat it up like ice cream. And that’s why you are where you are.
One of the first things the nazis did was gun control, what party does that sound like?
I wonder if Pritzker’s Twinkie and Bacon Diet is causing this obvious mental health crisis.
But Pritzker says he doesn’t use inflammatory rhetoric. Lol. How does he describe all,his executive, controlling orders during Covid?al the while his family went to Florida and he partied in Lake Geneva. I’d “do as I say, not as I do” his motto?
Pritzker is burning an immense amount of calories and money to shield illegals who are criminals. Why is he incapable of cooperating on this subject? Yes, Trump is ham handed but resisting the responsible common sense idea of ridding ourselves of criminal illegals is beyond Pritzker’s ability, or perhaps more accurately, his willingness to think with nuance. Pritzker’s belligerence in protecting illegal criminals is a huge red cape waved in front of the bull. Perhaps if he engaged with Trump and said you have my cooperation deporting criminals but I’ll fight you tooth and nail about arresting non criminals there… Read more »
For a person of Jewish descent,as he is, who should be well aware of the nazi atrocities of the holocaust I would think his constant references comparing nazis and Trumps tactics is insulting to his religion . The holocaust was horrific and nowhere near this . Its an insult to his heritage
Did Durbin coach him?
These US national socialists really love the German national socialists.