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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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Their pride won’t let them. They’ll take Illinois down first
Johnson, Pritzger and the rest of the democrat cabal who are destroying Illinois want the cities to collapse. Democrat voters hopefully will suffer terribly because of the election choices they make
I don’t know the legality of Trump sending the national guard nor do I know if he really wants to do that. Maybe. Probably. But he is intentionally and expertly illuminating the crime issue in Chicago and putting Johnson and Pritzker under harsh light and a microscope. That has great value politically, it forces them to double down on failing policies that harm public safety, especially among minority neighborhoods, . further exposing them locally and nationally. I hope he adds Preckwinkle, Evans, the DSL dopes on the city council by name to his comments. It may help rid us of… Read more »
well said.
Trump is forcing them to engage with reality and forcing them to act.
And if they don’t he’ll beat them like a drum in the media for their corruption.
But Dems would rather their citizens face rampant crime than actually work with Trump.
They show themselves to be despicable and national polls agree.
tRUMP doesn’t know what reality is, just a political he’s trying to pull, to hell with tRUMP.