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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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Poor JB! He’s the proverbial hungry fat kid, his fat nose pressed up against the restaurant window, enviously watching all the “cool, talented, and rich people” of “Team Trump” feasting inside, knowing that he will *never* be admitted entrance…
By the way, I posted my comment on Miller’s CapitolFax. Needless to say, he blocked it. Another liberal Fascist
And Miller is so vain and boneheaded that he’ll come to Wirepoints, troll for anyone calling out him out for not being a Journalist and instead being a Democrat PR parrot, and down vote like a 12 year old from multiple email browsers.
Miller forgets to mention that it was Trump’s tariff threat that finally moved the football. That isn’t journalism, it’s an in-kind political contribution in Capitol(lack of)fax.
JB the Hutt accomplished little prior to that.
Please note that the Illinois plant will not be making EVs that no one wants, nor the flammable batteries that would power them.
Stellantis trying to turn the corner.
They outgrew their unfounded hatred of President Trump.
JB the Hutt grew out.
Now, the Hutt is outside looking in. Maybe a bit less of the over the top rhetoric and a little conciliation might help Illinois. This isn’t the Hutt’s goal, though.
=But on Tuesday, he raised concerns about the prominent appearance of several large tech company CEOs at Trump’s inauguration.=
Yea, but JB did not criticize Tech in 2020 when Microsoft and Alphabet gave 80% of their money to DEM candidates or when Facebook co founder Moskovitz give $20 million to HRC in2016. And one should remember that Zuckerberg was a big supporter of Biden in 2020.
Just a reminder.
Yeah, and don’t you just *love* that new leftist buzzword, “oligarchy”, lol…!!! About two – thirds of billionaires, from what I’ve read, are *still* supporting dems… where else would Kamalala have gotten $1.5 BILLION in campaign funding…???
And somebody might want to remind them about oligarchy in IL, where our billionaire governor (a “real billionaire,” as he proudly boasted at the convention, who bought the seat with over $300M in campaign money, ruled the state for months on end with emergency orders for Covid and migrants.
I agree with Gov. Pritzker about billionaires -“some of them have delusions of being dictators themselves.” Let’s keep billionaires out of government, they’re too dangerous.
…I was referring to our billionaire governor…it was a joke, because he’s a billionaire actually acting as a dictator (3 years of covid emergency powers long after the emergency was over)…
Pritzker is against big tech companies but is for CCP Gotion plant? Maybe he’s getting more kickbacks from the Chinese? Maybe this should be investigated.
““These are the wealthiest people in the country who essentially Donald Trump feels better about having them around than having ordinary Americans backing him up or standing with him,” Pritzker said at an unrelated news conference. “And I think it’s just an indication of what this administration is really all about” – says Pritzker, a wealthy trust funder destroying Illinois finances and prompting ordinary Illinoisans to leave for surrounding states.
JB is so stupid, he doesn’t realize those billionaires are there to pay fealty to Trump’s America First Agenda that the people voted for. Musk allows freedom of speech, he isn’t banning ‘wrongthink’. Facebook – which also has a large conservative base – is telling the American people: We support you and Trump. Bezos, who owns the WaPo, is saying – by extension – that the DC media establishment is going to dial down the partisanship. These people don’t give two craps about Trump, they only care about $$$, and that money comes from us, the consumer, and now they’re… Read more »
News flash to Democrats- billionaires will always have opinions. I would rather they not side with the narcissists who are only interested in power, since they are incapable of making money on their own.
You’d think the governor of a rapidly shrinking state would want to attract, not insult, the CEOs of America’s most successful industry, but JB has always been “special”.
Guess what Pritzker the American people just voted out the party of chaos and destruction just in case you didn’t realize it just yet. Question Pritzker are you pouting because you weren’t invited to sit with the elites at the inauguration I didn’t know that Trump and his team had to communicate to you about anything what concerns do you have, could it be that your party of destruction took a real as- whooping. Do Illinoisans a favor keep showing your ignorance and stupidity to President Trump see were it’s going to get you.