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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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Rich Miller’s article refers to another article for statistics that bring up the interesting point that Trump “bested every Republican running for president in Illinois since 1992.” I have often wondered in various past Illinois races if the Republicans ran as true conservatives if they would do better. How many voters for example simply do not vote rather than vote for a Democrat or a liberal, RINO if you may, Republican? Could these voters swing an election? It certainly is something to think about including how well might a Trump aligned Governor candidate do against the free spending deficit building… Read more »
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The Democratic party can be made truly conservative pro-American and pro-growth. Back in 1986 the Illinois primaries resulted in LaRouche victories for HP engineer Mark Fairchild and Janice Hart against the deep state. The primaries were won through large numbers of educated motivatedvolunteers who canvassed IL for signatures as well providing basic information our Hamiltonian economic system. The deep state represented by Jim Edgar put Mark Fairchild in jail as a warning to those trying to upset the applecart. Economists Michael Hudson and Richard Wolfe were interviewed yesterday on Youtube by Nima on Dialogue and stated that both parties as… Read more »
Heavy drinking late on Sunday evening?
Cheap shot and you did not comment that motivated optimistic individuals can alter the status quo. Schiller wrote in William Tell that there is surely a way a tyrant can be taken down. The Bible commands us to hate and resist evil with all our might. By the way I do not imbibe alcohol or inject recreational chemicals into my body.
Why has no one challenged the congressional maps that take away the voice of republicans? The current districts put suburban voters in with inner city voters and western suburbs in with southern suburbs. Theses districts take away our right to representation.
Unfortunately many of the western burbs have turned D. DuPage is not pretty much D. I agree without gerrymandering there would be a chance
DuPage County is heavily D. Glen Ellyn is D+30; Downers Grove is D+35; precincts in Naperville are D+44 – that’s D67% R23%. Statistically, as soon as a voting area becomes more than 14% foreign born, it votes Democrat 90% of the time. DuPage is something like 15 or 20% foreign born. Naperville is over 25% foreign born for example.
The only way to flip DuPage back to Republican is to remove the Democrat voters and replace them with Republicans, because Democrats are never changing their minds.
Typo should be now not not
It appears that Pritzker and company are panicking in response to a nationwide butt kicking for Democrats. Time to circle the wagons! It reeks of desperation, and I hope you can forgive me for enjoying it. You can count on Illinois Democrats to do the wrong thing as usual, and JB’s ridiculous “happy warrior” speech is proof. He and his lapdogs will be successful in one thing, and that’s driving even more Illinois residents out of the state. The end of Covid money from Uncle Sam, and the installation of DJT, who detests Pritzker, guarantees that budgeting will be a… Read more »
The Happy Warrior comes across as the type that is happy to hide behind others that fight his battles and deal with the collateral damage.