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Gov. JB Pritzker has denied speculation that he plans to run for president in 2024 and said President Joe Biden had done a good job, but still says there are things that need to get done on a federal level. "We have gotten things done for the United States at the federal level under this president," Pritzker said. "But the truth is, it is not enough."
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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Delusional? Perhaps. Think it can’t happen?
Remember, the media colluded with the FBI and Big Tech to elect brain-dead Grifter Joe.
Big Round Boy fancies himself a dictator.
And in the State that is Ill, there is no bipartisanship when the statehouse is controlled by Leftists.
Again I will say. He is repulsive and delusional.
No Thanks Pritzker! You have done enough at the state level. We don’t need your communist rule at the National level.
JB has the presidential itch We all know he’s a son of a bitch Stroking the ego makes him swoon Born a baby with a platinum spoon King of the castle is his name Most of his plans are insane Mandates and shutdowns oh so many His wife and kids hardly any Florida mansion with masks so few Contain my slaves nothing they can do I won the race it was expected But in most counties I’m not respected Million dollar house with no plumbing To you JB hater my nose is thumbing Arrogance a plenty and it shows It… Read more »
To Pritzker, bipartisanship means doing things his way and the progressive Democrat way.
They want things done no matter how dumb the things are, usually ideas of democrats