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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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No, he’s incompetent.
People are fundamentally misunderstanding Johnson’s tenure as mayor. Like all communists, he’s not going to popular. Like all communists, he’s not smart or intelligent. Like all communists, he’s petty and vindictive. Johnson is mayor because his only job is to loot the city treasury on behalf of the CTU and his voters. That’s all. That’s it. He’s not there to perform a civic duty, or run Chicago like a world class city. He’s there to loot it and make it a CTU progressive paradise. OF COURSE he’s unpopular. Communism is never popular, that’s why they have to enforce it with… Read more »
‘Communism is: The promise to hurt the people you blame for your problems in exchange for power’. You say that with such conviction surely without even looking in the mirror for its interpretation. From your own history of jabber here against progressives it seems to me you might well be a Communist according to your definition. But, let me guess: you don’t think so!
Nobody wants to hurt progressives. We just want to stop them from destroying our country.
Nobody? Hardly a reasonable expectation. I think debtsor’s inclination in responding would be much harsher. Now, that I’ve said that maybe he’d purposely suggest otherwise. That would be faux debtsor rather than the real one.
The problem with progressives and leftists in general is that they want to hurt you. And they will hurt you. History has shown, over and over again, that given the chance, the ‘progressive’ will lead you straight to the guillotine, before the next group of revolutionaries come along, and lead the insufficiently revolutionary to the guillotine themselves. It’s important to keep this mind when dealing with the communist.
Your comment seems to consider the far left progressives rather than the vast majority who would be more moderate. What say you re the exact opposite and their tendency towards wanting autocratic rule? Again, that would be primarily those who lean far, far left. Are you equally strident there? Maybe you’d go along with some lesser version—say, those who might want to be dictator on day one said well in advance so voters know his proclivities. Would you and yours be attracted to vote for such a personally despicable guy—maybe even one who aspires to more gold toilets as his… Read more »
Oops, I should say that such a person would likely lean far, far right rather than left, of course.
This is a strawman. There are no rightwing autocrats in America. The moment you bring your TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) into this talk about progressives, it shows YOU are the person actually destroying democracy by refusing half the country it’s preferred presidential choice.
I’m not disallowing any such vote. You are free to vote for your favorite moron as far as I am concerned.
You can place a 5th grader in 9th grade classroom, then claim he’s “inexperienced” as opposed to “incompetent” to perform to expectations too. Johnson is/was clearly unready, unprepared, and ill-equipped to run for mayor. We Chicagoans, across the board, are now experiencing results of his inexperience and incompetence. But let’s not forget, we were warned of this outcome.
I’m sorry, it is really hard to understand what the author of this sophomoric piece of yellow journalism is saying when he’s got his mouth on Johnson’s Johnson.
TOOOOOO FUNNY
It isn’t an either/or question. The sad fact is that Mayor Brandon is both incompetent AND inexperienced, and that’s just unacceptable. He deserves no understanding or compassion, because he ran for the job, and when you run for Mayor in one of the biggest cities in the Country, you better be able to perform.
Or have SOME common sense!
How pathetic of these authors to say that blaming the “extreme right wing” may be a more accurate way to describe Johnson’s opponents. Johnson’s approval ratings are an abysmal 20%. So many journalists like this are so far out in left field that they have no where the center is.
Reminds me of this meme
He was hand picked and installed because he fit the “characteristics” of what the psychopaths in charge wanted to install. He is not inexperienced, he’s just a puppet shill being told what to do by his handlers and their entire put a puppet in to “socially engineer” the black population isn’t working anymore, seems like more and more of the black population are waking up.
But he is also not emotionally-equipped to be mayor, to face both the pressures and the criticisms. Many reports of “panic attacks” resulting in ER visits.
Democrat Pravda Propaganda. You just cant make this stuff up.