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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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Apparently, guarantining wasn’t that important after all
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He’s not getting paid while he’s isolating, is he?
It would take one determined virus to work its way into that load. Getting past all the donuts would be a huge challenge. Gosh, I hope he’s gonna be OK. Can you imagine Illinois moving forward without his steady hand on the…..donuts?
So what were the results or are you waiting for the weekend to be over to say that you were fine?
So he tested negative.
Going to go out and celebrate and eat at a restaurant?
Oh perhaps you are not in Illinois and are already eating out.
Forgive me if I ….
Chase, that’s over the top so we edited you. Please stick to substance.
One might opine that Pritzker is using this as an excuse to hide from his embarrassment that his prized tax vote did not come out the way that he planned. One could have strong feelings that Pritzker was the target of considerable ridicule by his classmates as a child for being the class fat boy. Today, with the help of daddy’s money, he bought himself a Governorship so he can now be the boss and show those mean classmates that he is the VIP today and it will be his way or no way in true bullylike form. Yesterday he… Read more »
A perfect analysis of that jerk. Why does ‘politics’ attract such incompetent and mentally messed up knuckleheads? He owns horses, so I have heard. Can you imagine the look of horror on those equine faces when he enters the barn?
He is not the embodiment of health.
It took five days before he was notified?
It might be because he wants to leave town for a bit and what better way than to say you are isolating. You can communicate from anywhere.
He isolated already tice since this all began–must have needed to go someplace and have an excuse to not do his job or what he thinks is his job.
Correct! This will be the 2nd time J.B. has isolated. The 1st was because of the initial Excelon news dump about Madigan and now he does not want to answer questions on his Progressive Tax Amendment fail and how we’re going to move forward.
COVID exposure has some interesting timing.