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Illinois has not had a truly balanced budget since fiscal year 2001. While federal aid helped Pritzker shrink the deficit, his budget proposal from Feb. 2 does not achieve balance according to projections from his own staffers.
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Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
May 19, 2026
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer – Chicago’s struggling commercial real estate and more
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
This JB is slimy!
This is just a comparison. Meta (Facebook) value went down almost $220B this morning. Largest loss in history. That value was enough to get all Illinois pensions to 100% funded.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meta-poised-suffer-largest-one-122010583.html
Will this happen to someday to the overall markets? If and when it does how will that affect funding levels?
When a politician is talking he is lying. If he was stating the facts he would be out of a job. For example, what no politician ever going to admit to you about cryto currency is that most of them have a ceiling, a maximum supply. You cannot just “issue” new coins the same way you can with money or stocks (so as long as stocks exist Meta is going to be OK, they can manipulate a lot of things to rebound). Hiding the facts is a form of lying, so do not expect JB to worry about the credibility… Read more »
Lying with numbers! The Democrat motto.
Math is rarely a politician’s friend.
Instead of honesty, we get a math shell game.
Vote the bum out!