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"While kissing up to the latest crop of police officers, he (Mayor Brandon Johnson) announced: 'And let me make this emphatically clear: If you don’t live in Chicago, you don’t have a right to talk about the city of Chicago.'...Doesn’t our current mayor realize that it’s often outsiders who both see a situation clearly and are free to speak?"
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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BJ The Race Clown is even more of thin-skinned toxic narcissist than Big Dick Larry Lightfoot
Quite a telling remark by our new mayor. Gives you a great insight into how he will deal with employers in the city, Metra, the expressways, sports teams, Michigan Avenue, downtown theatres, the harbors, museums, etc. And I can’t wait to see what happens with the NASCAR race coming up in a few weeks. Is he going to have that same attitude with the thousands of people who don’t live in the City who come to see the race? I bet he does.
And for those of us who live in the burbs but WORK and play and dine in the city? Visit family in the city? Belong to a parish in the city? Work in ethnic organizations based in the city’s ethnic neighborhoods? Sometimes I think I have heard the stupidest thing to come out of a politician’s mouth, and it can’t possibly get worse. Then, a new day dawns, and someone takes stupid to a whole new level.
** slaps forehead and sighs ***
Holy crap, I agree with something Steinberg says.
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in while.
He’s a nasty piece of work. Really a repulsive little man.