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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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The Founding Fathers were geniuses. The mental disordered village idiots, like half wit Quinn, pushing this are the exact reason why our Founding Fathers came up with the Electoral College.
Proportion the electoral votes. Think of how many nosebleeds that would trigger in blue voting districts.
People who live in a mostly rural congressional district have absolutely nothing in common with Cook County and are having the idiotic agenda of the democrats stuffed down their throats. Drive thru on a country road outside of Cook and the other collar counties and all you see is Trump/Vance signs. The bad part is that one Ward in Chicago has more voters than 20 square miles of country folks. Allowing electoral votes based on the returns of the congressional district makes sense like in Nebraska, winner of the state popular vote gets the 2 Senate electoral votes. Will that… Read more »
I believe Maine also distributes it’s electoral votes by district. That gives red districts in blue states and blue districts in red states a little more skin in the game.
In 2020, the collar counties, other than McHenry, all voted for Biden, and Trump almost McHenry. In fact, the collar counties shifted several points to the D in 2020 compared to 2016. Biden had 48% of the vote to Trumps 50%. My guess is that it will be close again, and, it will be a toss-up whether McHenry County stays blue. Ironically, it will be the city and Cook County that will red shift by several points, which is what happened last time, but certainly not enough to change the outcome of the election.
Republicans won the popular vote, but they’re not used to this feeling https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/17/politics/popular-vote-midterms-what-matters/index.html The cruel truth of American democracy, usually experienced by Democrats, is that a political party can get more votes than the other without winning much power. This year, however, it’s Republicans who got more votes – more than 3 million more votes for GOP House candidates – and don’t have as much to show for it. Republicans actually lost ground in the Senate, where Democrats will have a slim 51-49 majority. The GOP House majority, while an important check on the White House, is small and spread… Read more »
Actually the CNN article shows the republicans got exactly what they deserved. In House races they got 51.4% of the vote nationally and that won them 51% of the House. The democrats won 49% of the vote nationally and won 49% of the House. In the Senate the democrats got 51.3% of the vote and republicans 48.6% The senate is split 49-49 as 2 seats are held by independents who caucus with the democrats. Again the national results are reflected in the party makeup of the House and Senate. As to wave elections, like Cooke and many others predicted in… Read more »
Well, yes, it just happened to work out that way as a coincidence, and not by design. Gerrymandering gives outsized wins to the supermajority in party in power.
“He said whoever gets the popular vote should win.” These morons don’t get that in 2022 Republicans ‘won’ the popular vote and therefore should be in control of the house AND the senate AND the presidency. But only want to use the popular vote formula when it benefits them. Gov. Quinn the goof, the former leader of a sovereign state, and not some province within a nation, also ignores that we are the United States of America. We are a collection of states that agreed to come together for national purposes while retaining their sovereign status. But this all relates… Read more »
Your 20M illegal immigrant estimate may be underestimated. The 2018 Yale-M.I.T. study estimated 22M, and that was before the massive influx of late.