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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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Pritzker a bully? Just look at Pritzker’s behavior around the case of his paramour Ms Thornley.
Sadly, no matter which of these idiots wins, Illinois loses. The chances that any Republican candidate could win in Illinois are slim and none, and slim just left town.
The truth is coming out slowly but surely keep it coming about this jerk Pritzker
JBeefy wouldn’t say that, would he ?
Big Daddy Pritzger envisions himself as Czar of IL. Big Daddy Pritzger is a jerk.
Pritzker is a failure, why would anyone vote for his lieutenant governor, or anywhere endorsed?
Queen Victoria was “not amused.” Emperor JB tut-tuts “damaged goods.”