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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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This is one issue that really hurts Democrats- thank goodness. I encourage them to keep voting this way.
Democrats prefer fake women to biological women?
They can’t explain what a woman is
They are desperate for those votes, any votes! Homeless are their next target demographic.
Durbin and Duckworth voted against women’s rights. That says it all. Neither cares what’s good for the country. Just vote blindly along party lines. Vote them out.
Polling shows that this is an 80/20 issue. Everyone, including Den senators, knows what the public wants on this issue. Yet the Democrats vote against it. Maybe “it’s what the voters want!” isn’t necessarily true. Maybe a small but activist segment of voters gets what they want, even in the face of an
80/20 majority opinion. Hmmm…
Exactly right. What are they thinking? Every Dem voted that way! And notice that the Tribune and Sun-Times have nothing today on this vote. They cover it up.
This is why people who insist that the problem is always the voters are wrong. It’s obviously ridiculous to assume politicians vote based on the will of the people. Only people who are getting what they want despite the obvious damage to the majority of voters insist that what they get represents the will of the voters.
If only there was a way to put different politicians into office that more closely aligned with the will of the voters. The voters keep choosing politicians that don’t align with wishes yet it’s the politicians fault? Victimhood is strong with you.
I have never claimed to be a victim, but you seem to think personal insults are a good way to deflect. How much more clear does it have to be that there is something going on besides “it’s what the voters want”? The politicians are clearly catering to what their donors want, not voters. So do you suggest that voters work harder to buy politicians? After all, it’s a proven strategy that works. Just look at the public employee unions. Or are you going to tell me that 90% of contributions to Dems for decades had nothing to do with… Read more »
I’ll tell you what they are thinking. They will oppose pretty much anything and everything that comes from Trump. Plain and simple.
Spot on. Democrats are legislatively mostly helpless. So if Trump says that the sky is blue CNN will immediately hold a panel of sky “experts” (a bunch of humanities, women studies and minority studies majors) who will proclaim the inexorable ‘fact’ that the sky is Red and that if you think that it is blue then you are are a racist. Democrats will sponsor legislation that the official color of the sky is Red and Chuck Schumer will lead a rally of paid protestors in front of the Weather Service office holding hands and singing about a red sky.
To me and numerous others unrepresented here he’s Pres. Looney Tunes. As some have said the voters will get the predicted results without effective push-back, so why shouldn’t he be opposed? Quoting an Elmer Fudd response that’s all, folks!
The problem with Dems screaming about everything in the most extreme way is that they lose a chance of having impact on things they might actually be able to change. For example, even MAGAs don’t like some things Trump is talking about, like taking ownership of Gaza and Gulf of America. The business community left and right does not like the tariff uncertainty. If Dems constructively engaged on things like that they might have some influence.
I think it’s clear isn’t likely to take criticism whether constructive or otherwise. The recent confirmations and even high level and other hsays loudly and clearly he wants sycophants
The point clearly escapes you. Your party will not give Trump credit for anything good, they will dig in their heels and bite off their own nose to spite their face to ensure that Trump does not get a win. It’s classless and a joke. It’s a continuation of piss poor strategy on the left’s part that led to Trump not only getting elected int he first place but re-elected. The difference between your party and those that voted for Trump, we know our guy can run his mouth and say things we don’t want him saying…we know he has… Read more »
My goodness, I didn’t realize what a rotten human being I am. Thanks for clarifying and setting me straight.
We know…and that’s the problem. Glad I could help.
James, you are not a “rotten human being”, but you are most *definitely* “off the beam”* here:
“*What does it mean to be off the beam?
Off course, on the wrong track, as in He’s way off the beam with that argument . This colloquial term and its antonym, on the beam , meaning “on the right track,” allude to directing aircraft by means of radio beams. [ Colloquial ; mid-1900s]…”
When politicians line up like lemmings there’s a serious problem.
They don’t listen to their constituents, they simply follow the party line.
The brave politicians who do break ranks should be rewarded for actually listening to their voters, but instead are punished by their party for stepping off the reservation.
In a perfect system votes would be mixed, but, alas, they rarely are.
Stupid chickens.
Democrats have become the party of stupid. This was a brain dead move on Democrat’s part.
If the voters aren’t stupid their time in office should come to an end.
Of course their voters are stupid too!
Seems like elected leaders are doing a good job representing their constituents. It’s working as designed.
Democrats double down on a losing policy. Fine. They will lose even more senate seats in 2026.Still, their love for trannys and hatred of women is puzzlingly dumb.
Where are yesteryear’s feminists who stood up to fight for women’s rights?
And no, dear readers, men cannot magically or surgically become women any more than women can magically or surgically become men.
The whole concept is contrary to nature and verges on the insane.
Stupid chickens.
Yes, they have officially become the party of stupid, taking the title away from Republicans. There’s much consternation right now in the relatively more ‘normal’ wing of the Democrat Party that the culture issues are driving the entire party off the cliff and there’s no way to stop it from happening. Rahm is out there as the voice of reason telling Democrats to stop talking about bathrooms. And when Rahm – the guy who caused an international incident flying the globohomo flag at the US Embassy in deeply conservative Japan – is saying this, it means they are hopeless and… Read more »