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Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon was on the Coffee and a Mike podcast last week discussing the highlights of Wirepoints’ recent articles:
The articles discussed are linked here: Illinois media join national media to black out Biden scandal, Was Thomas Jefferson right? New study quantifies flight from America’s big cities during pandemic, and New poll details Chicagoans’ opinions about policing, race and Mayor Lightfoot’s performance.
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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To the hipsters and others : you don’t have to stay there , the cities , but you can’t come here
Totally agree!!-keep your left wing,liberal idealism in the cities,you’re not wanted in the small towns!
Interesting chat that needs a correction about traitor Joe, the 21st century version of Benedict Arnold. Joe’s been working on his bankroll via his bagman son long before the end of the Obama[Obummer] regime. Recall the photo of Joe deplaning from Air Force II in Beijing. Who was with him? Hunter and some young Biden girl on a field trip[?]. Hmm! Perhaps one can trace the rise of Joe’s fortunes by discovering when he bought his many mansions. Have all been acquired in just four years? The unasked and unanswered questions are what and when did Pelosi and Obama know… Read more »
We are well armed and it is dark out in the country.
With firearms at 5.6 million YTD sales in a state of 12.6 million. This only slowed by the inability get a FOID due to extremely long wait time, anything bad should stay in the city.
People submitted FOID card renewals and first time applications months ago and are still waiting in violation of law that cards will be issued within 90 days. ISP dropped the ball with no consequences. I wonder how the lawsuit trying to remove the FOID cardlaw is going.
The rural areas are generally safer, along with more control of police, schools, parks and libraries. ?
In Chicago, the mayor controls all of the above. ☹️
So, after the pandemic is over, young people will choose to stay in the rural areas where there is no nightlife, nothing to do, none of the precious restaurants that conservatives are crying about going out of business due to Pritzkers restrictions. People will for get COVID 19, just as they’ve forgotten World Wars, the Holocaust, wide spread lynching, etc. C’mon Man!
young people seem to communicate soley via screen anyway these days, who cares where you live when that is the case
I have seen the young text someone sitting next to them
Robshare – not sure of your point. People in my age group and social setting (i.e., those who are paying lots of taxes) are moving or are contemplating moving. And while COVID plays a part in that decision – particularly because of the increased acceptability from working from home, high taxes, corruption, and crime all degrade the quality of life. I too am thinking of moving, and if I was in Chicago, where I was born and raised, I would have been gone long ago. This is the rub – when it comes to revenue to the fisc of any… Read more »
Some people don’t care about nightlife and restaurants. ?