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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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Think it’s time for Pritzker to cancel his daily press conferences, same old crap day in and day out same old lies etc. Chuckles the clown aka Pritzker is just having way to much fun with this and people are getting more agitated everyday with this crap. By chance did anyone happen to see at today’s daily press conference his press secretary Jordan Abudayyeh, after speaking with Dr. Ezike they were suppose to switch back to Pritzker for questions but instead it went back to Jordan. Sure as hell looked to me like she had a wine glass in her… Read more »
Twice we had links to this segment on Youtube and the links ended up bad. Very suspicious given what we know about Youtube. We have changed the link to go directly to the source.
I hope to god that J Beluga watches this piece from Tucker. JB needs a little humility. The man lives in a liberal progressives bubble with a bunch of yes men and women who refuse to tell him no.
amazing, they took the video down on youtube.
It is now at a different link and we have fixed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-O0uHrbcPs