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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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My favorite was when Baier pointed out IL dismal statistics on property taxes, pensions, unemployment and Pritzker said he inherited all that and now it’s turning around. He’s been governor for eight years and none of these statistics are improving, getting worse. Rauner, Nixon, Ryan are all long gone. What have you done, Pritzker, to make people think they shouldn’t pack up and leave?
Why would he go on a national news show like Fox and blatantly lie like this?!
Just because the Trib never questions his lies he thinks Baier and Fox news will also give him a free pass on his obvious lies.
What a Dem stooooge!!
Pritzker always likes to shoot the messenger!
He can lie all he wants but facts are facts and they’ll come back and bite him in the ass. But will voters get sick of his shit and vote him out ?
Facts and reality are two words this clown can’t comprehend.
Lucky caught lying? Say it ain’t so, Joe!
Bet he didn’t expect to get hit with that !!! Thought he was in a “ Safe space .”
Lying is as natural to Demoncrats as breathing. Does this offend you? Grow up.
We can make jokes about Pritzker’s lying, but this is so disrespectful to all the victim’s families.
He is really evil to wave away murder that he does nothing to stop.
All it does is lead to more victims.
Pritzker is one of the leaders of the Dem death cult.
He just confirmed it.