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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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Sick and Twisted Bastards
Sounds like a grunge band. And for our first song-Transgender Boogie.
The Pritzkers are one screwed up family. Seriously, they are a jar of mixed nuts.
It is being misdirected, as a typical Pritzkeresque tactic, away from the primary issue (how to get public money steered to private interests) to being a ‘social justice’ issue. The point isn’t child welfare, the point is: should society be forced to pay for fulfilling some one individuals’ heart’s desire? Everyone has heart’s desires. Achieving many still must be self-funded. Achieving a few, which can be monetized by Pritzkereques, can become ‘rights’ and thus force-funded by society. What is the defining feature of sexual identity which distinguishes it from any other self-identity (like being rich or an astronaut or thin… Read more »
Dear Deity – that pic of “Jennifer”…!!! “A motivating and driving force behind the Pritzkers’ family-wide commitment to SSI has been J.B.’s cousin Jennifer (born James) Pritzker—a retired lieutenant colonel in the Illinois Army National Guard and the father of three children. In 2013, around the time gender ideology reached the level of mainstream American culture, Jennifer Pritzker [pictured, right] announced a transition to womanhood…”