-- 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.
SIGN UP HERE FOR OUR FREE WIREPOINTS DAILY NEWSLETTER
ICE is enforcing IMMIGRATION LAWS which the Democrats have DESTROYED with their open borders !!! No one is against LEGAL IMMIGRATION.
Witch hunt prosecutors trying to keep a candidate off the ballot?Check. Fake Russian collusion gleefully repeated by the media? Check . Editing what was said to spin it into the exact opposite? Check. Burying evidence of family members making shady, personally enriching deals? Check. Hiding the mental deterioration of a candidate hiding in a basement to avoid debates and doing likewise when the candidate was up for reelection? Check. This is the way Dems operate. Check.
“fast track to authoritarianism” he’s clearly lost his marbles, Trump is doing EXACTLY what he said he would do (first candidate in my lifetime who has ever done this) and he’s turning the country back on track over this illegal aliens, LGBTxyz, DEI nonsense that has destroyed everything it’s touches.
What a horrible publication. Undoubtedly paid for by JB as he is portrayed as some kind of savior. The big plan? Openly admit that they will try to win reelection by continuing to lie to taxpayers and give insurance subsidies through the states (oh and say it is temporary) and then withdraw funds until they get elected. But the Dems aren’t touching it. Why? Because in its more menacing form it is called Obamacare and the subsidies WERE supposed to be temporary. Costs WERE supposed to go down. Thank goodness we don’t have Dems in the White House or this… Read more »