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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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Thank you for your thoughtful, well reasoned, very mature comment. I am sure that you will convert a lot of us to your point of view with your eloquent mini-essay…
They say there is a uniparty, and in some sense, there is; but that’s too simple of an answer. There are major differences between the parties – in policy, in political donors, in locales, in party membership….it really is Republican Vs. Democrat in many ways. The parties hate each other in congress too – Nancy Pelosi feels no love for Republicans whatsoever, she hates us, and would throw us in camps if we didn’t own tens of millions of guns.
Adam, you’re a little punk…. Independent thought is fine, but you’re simply a Dem sycophant…. Sad, sad indeed.
Kinzinger needs to go away for good! True coward!
The only question I want answered is who murdered Ashli Babbit and when is that government employee going to be prosecuted?
RINO kinzinger will never ask that question.
Vote no if turncoat Kinzinger runs again. He is a disgrace to call himself a conservative or Republican. He wouldn’t be suited for the position of dog catcher.
Where is he going to run? His district is about to be redrawn and he would have to run in a district that just elected a lunatic progressive that pushed her own children into transgenderism, for the cause. He’ll be primaried out and he knows that too.
He sees the end of his political career, as does Liz Cheney, and they are bitter, angry and vengeful, and they’ve selfishly decided to try and sink the entire ship with them.
but what is to stop Dems from voting for him? Dems love him.
If they vote for him and it sounds like the redrawn district could, he still can win.
The dems have successfully executed this crossover tactic before.
Exactly right. That’s the only tactic that could explain his actions.
Rarely have Republicans rebranded as Democrats and won. 99% of the time, the traitor Republican is used and abused until they are of no use to the Democrat party anymore, and then they disappear to never be heard from again.
And considering that Marie Newman’s district (where he would have to run) just elected an INSANE progressive, Marie Newman, there’s no way these people are going to switch across the isle and vote for Kinzinger. It will never happen.
I see your point and hope you are right.
And she is insane.
She recently said on WTTW I think that the jan 6 event was the “greatest threat to our democracy since the War of 1812”. I couldn’t believe my ears.
We need to restore trust in this country, then why are you Kinzinger being a traitor you need to go now, the damage caused that day was caused by democratic corrupt politicians trying to destroy Trump, your girlfriend Pelosi Kinzinger is a very very sick lady and needs to seek help period, and you want trust in this country long way to go young man. I have questions I want answered Kinzinger, why have you betrayed your party and the people that voted for you, why.