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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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This is a perfect example of a hack fourth rate “journalist” trying to give JB a BJ.
What has the author of this piece been smoking?!?
I don’t think JB can unite or draw any undecided, especially republican! All they have to do is look at the awful shape Illinois is in, hopefully they’d do their homework without blindly voting!
JB the Hutt tapped to win voters that the DNC already has. I wouldn’t trust the author of this tripe to work at Starbucks slinging coffee.
Fat Fredo has no “business ties”. He’s never done anything in the family business, nor any other business. His family knows he’s stupid, so they keep him away. He just keeps spending the trust fund he has as being a member of the lucky sperm club.
DOESNT ANY TAX PAYERS SEE WHAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE DONE TO THIS STATE CHICAGO SCHOOL BOARD READY TO FILE BANKRUPTCY THEN WHO KNOWS the city ????????
No they don’t. The Chicago media is populated by DNC activists masquerading as journalists regurgitating DNC talking points as if the propaganda had anything to do with reality. The local news shows have all the sheen of the old information sharers, minus the reporters.
Sure, they still cover the traffic and weather (which they frequently get wrong). The local news still provides cheerleading and marketing for Chicago’s dreadful sports teams. Add to that the useless Hollywood promotional tours with scripted interviews with the vapid, talent-bereft cast, and you have your local news cast.
They’re also complete shills and cheerleaders for the entire real estate industry, especially the print industry, which gets much of its few remaining advertising dollars from developers and other real estate industry companies
JUst remember………it’s who counts the votes
Yeah, no.
It will probably go to someone in a battleground state anyway.
Yes. Arizona’s Mark Kelly if they are smart enough to go moderate (which is questionable).
There’s no such thing as a moderate democrat.
Who wrote this? Oh, an actress.