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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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Tina Sfondeles, formerly of USAID-funded left wing blog Politico, now acts as DNC stenographer on behalf of the very non-profitable pamphlet formerly known as the Sun-Times newspaper. That JB the Hutt can get away with his incendiary mendacity is owed primarily to useful idiots like Tina. Like a good leftist, Tina dutifully regurgitates everything that The Hutt spews, never providing actual context, as any references to actual occurrences and actions (aka ‘reality’) contradict The Hutt’s self-serving falsehoods. We used to have what lefties formerly called ‘fact checks’. Ever since the abandonment of journalistic standards in service to the DNC, the… Read more »
OMG! Is Pritzker the dumbest Dem in the US right now?
He’s a walking advertisement for the American Heart Association on what NOT to do, and he’s going to bring up doing push-ups? He couldn’t even do a standing push-up against a wall.
I will bet money there’s a staffer carrying an AED defibrillator wherever he goes.
Pryizker managed to break one of his legs just walking around. JB is also funneling his brother Anthony’s anger over Hegseth moving trans people out of the military.
Plus the oxygen