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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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Rahm. Forget it. You sucked here with only Chicagoans knowing it. The limelight will expose how worthless you were as a mayor and how bad you’d be as a president
Every Democrat fails upward. Every single one.
Did he solve Chicago’s education problems? No.
Did he solve Chicago’s fiscal problems? No.
Did he solve Chicago’s crime problems? No..
He didn’t even lay the groundwork to solve them in the future.
So why did he even run for mayor if he didn’t intend to solve these problems?
He really can’t read the room.
No one who’s only a talker and not a doer can be elected President.
He’s only taken somewhat seriously because he’s not a Marxist like all the other Dems.
Oh, please. One slew of commercials detailing the LaQuan McDonald fiasco and the Tiny Dancer will be back to pulling the levers behind the curtain.
BS. He already knows the answers to those questions and he has the titanium pair to do it. What he doesn’t know yet is how well he can fundraise and fare against whomever else jumps in. Meantime, keep the name out there, talk a sensible game in an insane world and see what happens. He’s no dummy.
Rahm’s brother is a high powered Hollywood agent who could get the Clooneys & Streisands of the world to support his “common sense”/non Leftist Democrat approach.
Rahm is a Clintonista and former head of the DNCC. He could pull together a credible Presidential Campaign at the drop of a hat.
Rahm is not stupid. I would guess he is keenly aware that today there are more independents than Dems or Republicans, and that he could play to the independents. Still, getting through the Dem primary, which is dominated by radicals, would be tough.