-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
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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We already have the most moloch pleasing abortion laws in the country? What else does he plan on doing? I heard rumors they want to spend tax payer dollars to pay for abortions for out of state residents.
He calls a special session about the Supreme Court ruling but yet when asked more than a dozen times to call a special season about Covid-19 he refused time and time again. Pritzker your priorities are awful, remember everyone November 2022 remove this destroyer of life from office.
The theme of the session will be: how can we cash in on abortion and become the Midwest destination for abortions, pot, and gambling.
Wonder when they will legalize prostitution so we can attract those tourists too.
Sad for the Land of Lincoln, a once proud, industrious and prosperous place to live and raise children.
BLM-Babies Lives Matter