-- 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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Will they be marching in front of Governor WIDE-LOAD’s mansion. He’s the guy that used non union labor at his horse mansion up in Wisconsin.
I thought he was a pro union guy.
Good ole Labor Day- the non- Christian Marxists holy day. Leave it to Panic Attacks, Comrade Pritzger and other assorted communist operatives to use it as an opportunity to whip the lemmings into a frenzy.
A rally and march against our billionaire governor Pritzker?!
Love it. Tell the pastor to drain his flock
Workers over billionaires and why not Free Palestine too? More nonsense from the south called progressive left.