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.
Republicans need to fight harder……not always give up!
Why would he resign? Did he do anything to help or build up the committee?
He’s a republican, there’s no hope of change with democratic supermajorities and the government all on the same team. Until people stop pulling the blue handle, Illinois well is already hopeless.
Fed’s need to allow state bankruptcies to eliminate all the pubic unions.
Biggest problem is all or most of the people pulling the blue handle are recipients of what the Democrats offered them whether that is pensions/employment/health care/welfare or any freebies. Plus you must include spouses or family members who all benefit from that. This is easily 2.5M or more voters.
That’s a terrible attitude! Statistics and polls are all showing massive positive trends with conservative values. Conservatives have a huge base of competent and concerned citizens to tap into. A huge number of activists are literally waiting on the sidelines for the right time to get involved.
True, but think about it when you say “Statistics and polls are all showing massive positive trends with conservative values.” What that really means is that what’s called conservative is actually mainstream. It just gets labeled as conservative or right wing by the radical leftists in the media and by the leftists themselves. Elon Musk has been making this point. We’ve written about it, too.