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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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Again Neil Steinberg gets it wrong. JB is not speaking out for the people of Illinois. He could care less about the people of Illiniis. JB is a master of disguise. He has given Illinois citizens billions in tax increases. He has never presented a balanced budget. Audits of Illinois finances go ignored. Blaming Trump for most everything diverts attention from his failure governing Illinois .
Find me Pritzzker’s knuckles. I want to slap them with a ruler and send him to the principal’s office. Thanks for sticking with this critical issue.
In Illinois, ‘the weak give up and stay, while the strong give up and move away ‘
I guess Ted and Mark are “the weak” by that analysis. How insightful.
Realistically, what do you think Ted and Mark are going to change? If Ted gets anywhere close to being elected, Pritzger and the public sector unions will bury him with cash. Even if he gets elected the demfilth will have a veto proof majority and a bought and paid for Supreme Court. They’ll do to him what they did to Rauner. I applaud their fight. Once I would have been right with them. But life is too short to continue the useless practice of casting jewels before the swine. The swine are perfectly content with their bread and circuses and… Read more »
😮 Profanity, totally unacceptable! May ones head explode, thank you Lord in advance! 🙏
Pritzger says whatever he can to cover up the systemic incompetence of his bloated, greedy socialist model of government. As with his twin brother Panic Attacks, foul language and useless blaming of Trump, racism, Richard Nixon, the Confederacy and global war.. er, climate change come in handy as IL swirls further down the toilet, unless you removed it to beat the tax man.
As I commented on a Chicago Contrarian post on the Chicago Sun Times earlier this year regarding Neil Steinberg:
Oh Dear Lord THAT idiot is still around? Besides the drinking and batting the old lady around I remember him lecturing Chicagoans in print about being accepting of Diversity and Vibrancy! in their neighborhoods while Neal and his family moved off to Northbrook, a posh northern suburb that was lily white and the only Hispanics he’d see would be doing yard work.
Hey Neil, a shanda fur die goyim my friend.
”Ditto”
Mr. Steinberg, if your thinking on this prevailed, and if the Sun-Times still allowed comments on its site, you’d be flooded day and day in and day out with similar words.
A point very well taken.
A Pravda paid shill should not be given the respect of being called Mr. It’s time we start calling these scum on the left, the America hating lunatics they are.
This is rich.
Maybe Mr. Steinberg should have done cussing before he did what he did at his home to get arrested for domestic abuse.
His “I was drunk” excuse was lame and just a cop out to save himself from judicial punishment.
A real man doesn’t raise a hand at a woman, and surely doesn’t blame it on alcohol, but a beta male like him does.
Notice that many of Mr. Steinberg’s quotes in the article apply directly to him. He’s a loser.