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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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He isn’t really being considered. They threw him a bone by saying he was on the short list but he doesn’t do anything for that campaign.
Pritzker on the ticket will hurt the Democrat’s pandering to the Hamas terrorist voters in Michigan. The DNC is going to be a clownshow of rioting.
Hush….don’t let him hear you…….he thinks HE’S A STAR……..NOT!!
Who knows what’s really going on. I don’t believe a word out of their mouths.
God help Americans if he is selected
Mark, why am I now awaiting for approval when I do replies
Sorry for the inconvenience, but we had a particularly large group of malicious commenters on the attack recently that we believe to be fake, so we had to set the commenting to requiring approval first. For past approved commenters like you it’s supposed to start letting you through with no delay soon. Sorry.
The reality is that the white house is a chaotic mess right now, and journalists are asking the lowliest of interns for opinions as if it were inside baseball knowledge. I’ve always doubted that JB would be under consideration for VP. The VP job in and of itself is useless, as John Adams called the vice presidency “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived”. A power hungry billionaire who calls all the shots isn’t going to take a step down to a vice presidency from the governor of a large blue state.… Read more »
Is she vetting him for VP or rather flattering him to influence a large contribution from the money man? It might work as I don’t think Pritzker wants to run as a number two. he has worked hard on his headlines to get to where he is. Pritzker wants to be #1 and I do believe nothing else will satisfy his ego.
“Robber barons…robbed the Midwest”? What the heck is he talking about? As I have said before, this gas bag won’t hold up to real press scrutiny on a national level. The only way he has won twice in Illinois is that we have such a weak and uninspired media that never challenges any of his bloviating.
Weak and uninspired opponents. The media gets weaker and weaker every internet minute passes.