-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
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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If you have any doubts that the media is a cheerleader for the democrat government, this article will allay your fears, as the Tribune is essentially tattling on restaurants and local governments who refuse to enforce the tyrannical executive orders. This article is actively cheerleadering and encouraging businesses to follow the restrictions, and tattles and shames people for not wearing mask. The trib is so pathetic.
The Trib has moved so far Left.
This was not a law but yet all were treating as so.
Then Lard Boy and other wonder why people are leaving Chicago and Illinois.
People need to make a living and Illinois is not where it is at.
The trib is left of Obozo