-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
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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Wants all the illegal invaders to help maintain Illinois population numbers . Fought to get them included in the census . As for the CLAIM BALANCED BUDGET S. PURE BULLSHIT !!!
The Governors answer to the quite reasonable question about Illinois’ decrease in a subpopulation of the state, according census data, was not an answer. It was a classic, political non-answer word salad. Why is he continually allowed to do this unchecked by a compliant media? Pritzker dances past these blows the Illinois economy with lies of omission and mistruths, typically claiming some absurd victory on his part as part of the misinformation. He is a terrible governor.
Guttman lies about everything- the budget, his handling of crime and inflation, the supposed transparency of IL government, everything. It’s all the guy knows.
Those must be some dark rose colored glasses he’s wearing