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Richard Porter: "In the Illinois Democratic Party electorate, circa 2025, the fringe has gone mainstream."
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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I guess the democrats are starting a civil war, hopefully without firearms, but either way they will lose AGAIN.
The poor lemming Democrats do not realize they are being led to slavery. Their lives will not be better, only worse.
If you haven’t figured it out, the USA is already in the beginning stages of a civil war. Read the history of the lead up to our last civil war. The similarities are astounding.
Democrats are not only for violence, the leaders encourage it. Dems are pro criminal, pro illegals and against law abiding US citizens.
Democrats planned SNAP to run out so they will start a civil disturbance robbing the grocery stores . 2020 PEACEFUL RIOTS AGAIN.
Sorry Rich, but the Dems began going off the rails nationally since 2008 when the UI-C undergrad with Weather Underground ties ascended to the throne. We are now seeing the seeds for a “ re- imagined, re- set America “ planted then bearing their strange fruit.
The Democratic Party hasn’t been fully invested in the Republic since Lincoln won the presidency.