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"The legacy corporate media sucks up to J.B. Pritzker, yes, and he has his presidential dreams, but I’m writing this to tell you that Boss Toni is the one shaping the future of Chicago."
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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Democrat leaders all own the crime, and democratic voters are numb to it in a Stockholm Syndrome where they accept all the punishment given to them. And look to said leaders not as abusers but as needed providers. When the voters are no longer free thinkers, no longer individuals, this what you get. I hate the word “collective” probably in my top 10 most hated words. A collective of non-thinkers is what Cook County is.
When some future Edward Gibbon writes his magnum opus on Chicago there’ll be a chapter dedicated to Toni.
She’s also got a Hunter for a son too….
John, is Friday the 13th your Lucky Day? I appreciate your courage and hope to keep reading your stuff. -30 –