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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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The bat signal went out to label Republicans as “weird”. JB dutifully and brainlessly parrots his marching orders.
Pritzker might want to reconsider what he labels as “just weird.” Meanwhile, he and his cousin, philanthropist Jennifer Pritzker (formerly James Nicholas Pritzker), are enthusiastically promoting a shift from the traditional binary understanding of sex to something they call Synthetic Sex Identities (SSI). This concept, spanning medical, legal, cultural, and educational institutions, is conveniently framed as a human rights issue. The Pritzkers have generously donated $12 million to the University of Chicago School of Medicine and $30 million to its Biological Sciences Division and School of Medicine. These investments support the creation of SSI through surgeries, drugs, and language reforms,… Read more »
The communists tried to redefine reality also, and they had keep up the charade by the barrel of gun.
Trump made the country livable and pleasant and safe……..you JP have made ILL unsafe tooooooo expansive and unlivable!!
I find the man with a fixation on transitioning children while at the same time talking about abortion with a big smile on his face to be really weird. Looking at you JB.
you forgot biden and harris and their weird ideas for AMERICA
I like JD Vance. I like cats too.
I have 5 cats (a stray mama and her 4 kittens, mama’s been fixed and kittens are next) and I am not in the least offended by what Vance said.
Thank you for taking care of that stray.
Pritzker’s fixation with toilets, raising taxes and fees and unwillingness to make budgets cuts from a bloated budget in a state with the highest per capita public debt is weird. Scratch that, it is normal for IL.
I do not consider name calling to be behavior that I would expect from a political leader. No matter who it is grade school playground name calling isn’t a mark of intelligence or managerial aptitude that, as we have seen, seems to be a Pritzker trademark.
JB is just doing what he is told. The Harris campaign advisors sent out a memo that said “label JD Vance as weird and creepy!” because their internal polling showed their previous attacks, the Hillbilly Elegy strategy, was backfiring because voters saw it as an attack on blue-collar working class folk. I’m not joking, this really happened, from what I’ve read. These campaigns have hundreds of millions of dollars and the try to obsess over every detail. It’s important to note that today’s Democrat class believe that every issue is just a ‘comms’ issue. A communication issue. If they could… Read more »
Lying is now entirely normalized for them. They lie about everything.
The problem is the main stream news picks it up and publishes it so people think its true.
As Pritzker did. He helped spread the lie.
We think they are lying, but they instead are creating their own truths, by communicating what the truth shall be, and then everyone follows. And when everyone follows the truths, then it becomes the truth, even if it is objectively false. That’s why they talk about ‘lived experiences’ and ‘my truths’ because facts, hard objective facts, don’t mean anything, because facts – as determined by the cisgendered heteronormative eurocentric culture – are used as tools as oppression, because when straight white people to decide what is factual and what is not-factual, they can decide who is right and who is… Read more »
I recently read an article on FDR’s campaign that arose during a period of dislike for President Woodrow Wilson who in many ways had policies like today. Roosevelt, rather than resort to name calling, chose instead messages about a “return to normalcy” when referring to the Wilson Administration. Later that day I heard Trump on the radio calling VP Harries a lunatic for some policy situation that I think involved the border. I would think Trump would sound much more presidential if he would have commented that we need to return the borders to the normal state before the Biden-Harris… Read more »
Elections are less and less about the independent voter these days because so few people split their ballot. There used to be people who would vote one way at the top of the ticket and then the other party the rest of the way down. These days nearly all ballots are straight ticket, as I’ve always done, since I first voted in any election decades ago. So what matters is turnout. What separated Biden from Trump in 2020 was 40,000 votes over three swing states. Those 40,000 voters weren’t independents, they were ‘ballots’ counted. That’s why the Democrats push early… Read more »
Oh I certainly agree that the Democrats handle early voting quite well considering when an early vote is cast it is cast in stone one way or another. I could never understand why the Republicans didn’t have get out the vote rally’s where early voting was solicited and followed through on. Perhaps that is one of the reasons why they lose in places like Illinois (among some other things.)
Well said.
I agree Riverbender. Well I believe Trump would be the best president, he needs to control his penchant to lash out. I believe some of his comments during the 2020 debate with Biden cost him the election. If he had just kept quiet and let Biden speak, more Americans would have picked up on his decline.
Not just the election but perhaps the Senate as well
Yes, everyone has an opinion, but I firmly believe that McConnell and the RNC lost us the Senate. McConnell refused to do that last stimulus payment (that Schumer sent out four months later) and then the RNC didn’t do jack squat for turnout in the run-off special elections in Georgia. They didn’t do crap until it was too late, and people were so demoralized from the earlier November vote, that the rural counties didnt’ show up to vote. We all saw the numbers of on Fox News county by county, the red vote that showed up in November didn’t show… Read more »
Just a toady with lots of money trying to ingratiate himself into the Democratic (Marxist) elite aristocracy.
Pritzker has now officially become a crackpot, like much of the leftist Democrats e.g. similar to Maxine Waters.
Pritzker you are nothing but a poacher
The ‘weird’ talking point is just that: it’s an actual talking point that comes from the talking points memo from the Democrat Party. The irony is that Rust Belt voters don’t see him as ‘weird’. All of us know a super-smart guy who escaped the lower middle class and made it, albeit not quite like he did. He’s just an average dude. JB with his billion dollars, and an equally dysfunctional family, he’s the creepy weird one.