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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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Noem was VERY effective at simply stating the facts, and the facts are damning of Pritzker and his wanton disregard of the Constitution and Federal laws.
In many ways I hope Noem does not take any type of criminal action against Pritzker over this. Pritzker would love to have a picture poster of himself being arrested for his campaign that would be plastered by every left wing media source making him a martyr for the cause. I would suggest simply ignoring him and cutting off funding because without the funding Illinois will be a disaster for continuing its sanctuary programs…and that headline Pritzker can’t afford to happen
Arrest Pritzker and protect the Homeland like he desires! The bloviating fat man is going to reap the whirlwind . I predict he will cry like a little girl when the handcuffs go on.
Hear hear! Once Trump really lets ICE get to work, the pro-immigrant, anti-American policies of Pritzker and his ilk will mean nothing.
Deport the illegals. Deport the legals. Deport the criminals. Deport the law-abiding. Deport them ALL.
Like, say, Melania Trump? Elon Musk?
Start with Erick J in HP. Laws mean nothing to him so he won’t mind.
Laws change all the time and there is no reason Trump can’t change them to reclaim America. Heck, I’d love to see him do just that if it meant we get our country back.
Nothing but the US constitution. Maybe you should go back and watch some school house rock and learn how a bill becomes a law. Presidents can’t change laws. In case you can’t find the video let me help you out. Members of congress, aka lawmakers, are responsible for changing laws. Presidents only sign them into law or veto.
Presidents set the agenda. That is, except for the previous four years when the extreme left wing of the DNC wagged the legislative branch. During that time with no one at the wheel of the Ship of State, Federal agencies essentially ran themselves.