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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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Bold action needed. Recommend purge from rep party anyone who has “fed” off the Illinois Combine. Next, link with Adam Kinzinger and Liz Chaney to realign the Illinois rep party with Country First and Liz. Both have heavy conservative credentials without the low-life, bogus, stuff. (Plus Liz and Adam are President and VP material and Ill would be early supporters.). That may upset some extremists, but so be it.
The fallacy is that we can compare election results among states that fixed their election integrity problems vs. those who’ve doubled-down on maintaining the emergency narratives, in order to instantiate a permanently corrupt election process….and (haha) let’s start that discussion before we’re done fortifying, I mean, confirming that election 3 days ago. Our local RINOs must persist in the delusion you’re too stupid to notice their history of fecklessness & current self-interest. Trump is teflon from his own idiotic comments because he is MAGA. MAGA remains an existential threat for all RINOs, including those who would fatally cripple DeSantis’s chances,… Read more »
Trump is a contributing cause to the losses. His highest profile picks in the most important races mostly failed. There’s a million other reasons too – D’s outspent R’s big time in many tight races, McConnell picked and chose who he supported, redistricting favored Red states and Blue states – many states beyond FL had massive red waves, and nationally, no party control flipped in most race, so it was an uphill battle for Trump’s candidates. The more concerning part though is Trump’s ongoing meltdown, his attacks on Desantis, his likely poor timing of his announcement to run again, his… Read more »
Your post is a positive sign to me that we are finally moving on from Trump. When I’ve brought up that Trump was an albatross around the GOP you went to great lengths to defend him. Defending his policies (which for the most part I too agree) instead of recognizing his great flaws that repel moderate voters. Just in the last two weeks you were talking about all the Trump backed candidates and how they were going to win. I don’t bring this up for an I told you so moment but rather as real positive growth in the GOP… Read more »
Most of Trump’s candidates did win throughout the country. He wasn’t on the ballot yet his candidates brought out 6% more Rs than Ds. But, his candidates lost/are losing the highest and most important races necessary to flip control of the country: NV, AZ, GA, PA. Using a basketball analogy, he won the layup races handily but lost all the three pointers. 2. Desantis is a better candidate but he is equally as polarizing. He’ll be portrayed as the new Trump in the media and they’ll demonize him just as much. Will he bring out as many R voters as… Read more »