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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 Governor has always followed the (political) science & (political) data when making the best decisions for our health.
So… when will people learn? History repeats itself, and apparently this time faster than usual.
Phases will lead to tiers and possibly another GD bridge to no where.
He needs to do this because the primaries are coming up and they need to change their narrative to fit better for elections. Many people in Illinois have a short memory problem and will fall for it. You watch, the fat man here will change everything in the next few months to garner support and votes. That is all this is about.
How much you want to bet the first mask lift will be for vaccinated only?
The non conformists must be punished!
It will be on the honor system and the unvaccinated will not comply.
Im beating Jb has to cut some kind of gimmie behinde the scenes deal w teachers union before he lifts the school mask mandate
He’ll do whatever CTU tells him to do.
2 things are clear, in case we doubted it before:
1. Teachers unions hate children, and want this sanctioned child abuse to continue.
2. Pritzker will do whatever the teachers unions want done.
Oh, and step up those pension payments.