The governor just pummeled Chicago with more than $11 billion in new unfunded pension liabilities at the worst possible time. Residents deserve answers.
Friday news dump: Maybe it would help if we outlawed any political work Friday-Sunday. No passing laws, no signing them. Take that four-day workweek and pair with a tasty no overtime in legislative sessions, so they can't pass things at 2 in the morning that nobody's read.
Just seems like it's too late. There is no "solving" this crisis, sub 20% funded pensions with markets at all time highs means that in a matter of just a few years, balances will be close to zero and the reckoning will be tragic and epic and teachers and police and firemen will not understand how the "promise" of their pension was just made up bullshit.
First I would ask, has JB any record of accomplishment besides being born extremely wealthy? I have seen no indication this individual is particularly bright or capable. We are in a dire situation where an extremely wealthy person can buy a state as their play toy. We are in a "deep sh.t situation" as the late R. Lee Ermey would put it, having had both a Republican and a Democrat in succession buy the state and drag it further down the road to ruin. Chicago has been taken over by a union populated with semi-literate communists which now intends to press their Bolshevik stupidity on the entire state. We need to build a wall somewhere between 47 and 55 and declare a new state west of it. They can have Cook, DuPage and Lake, we'll keep the rest. They can call themselves the state of Corruption or Mike Shedlock's "Preckwinkle Taxtopia." RINO Hell DuPage deserves to be included for their perfidy and backstabbing. They helped cook it. Let them eat it.
I agree with ignoring problems here in Illinois. I think he’s solidifying CTU support for his re-election, because he doesn’t have the gravitas (I was going to say weight.) for a national run. Trump is turning his sights on the NEA, who are being minimized as a national force even as we speak…
Just had a couple of more thoughts. These sweeteners for the Police and Fire Departments are the easiest to “sell” to voters. Who can argue against cops and firemen, even while they’re being gutted by the mayor and the leftists in his administration? But now, will Pritzker not do the same for municipal workers? For teachers? Pandora’s box is now open…
Total insanity. Can’t wait until they come to us non Chicagoans to pay the bill.
Failed city, meet failed state.
Here's an idea.
Stop electing Socialists posing as Democrats.
Better yet, stop electing any Democrat!
They’ve bought the elections
Friday news dump: Maybe it would help if we outlawed any political work Friday-Sunday. No passing laws, no signing them. Take that four-day workweek and pair with a tasty no overtime in legislative sessions, so they can't pass things at 2 in the morning that nobody's read.
And no omnibus bills. The budget and everything else should be their own items, not these massive pieces of legislation that nobody can reconcile
There you go. You and me can fix the whole thing.
Just seems like it's too late. There is no "solving" this crisis, sub 20% funded pensions with markets at all time highs means that in a matter of just a few years, balances will be close to zero and the reckoning will be tragic and epic and teachers and police and firemen will not understand how the "promise" of their pension was just made up bullshit.
First I would ask, has JB any record of accomplishment besides being born extremely wealthy? I have seen no indication this individual is particularly bright or capable. We are in a dire situation where an extremely wealthy person can buy a state as their play toy. We are in a "deep sh.t situation" as the late R. Lee Ermey would put it, having had both a Republican and a Democrat in succession buy the state and drag it further down the road to ruin. Chicago has been taken over by a union populated with semi-literate communists which now intends to press their Bolshevik stupidity on the entire state. We need to build a wall somewhere between 47 and 55 and declare a new state west of it. They can have Cook, DuPage and Lake, we'll keep the rest. They can call themselves the state of Corruption or Mike Shedlock's "Preckwinkle Taxtopia." RINO Hell DuPage deserves to be included for their perfidy and backstabbing. They helped cook it. Let them eat it.
We are planning to move to Iowa next spring. Enough already!
I'm closing on my new home in Missouri in two weeks. Turns out I'm just in time 😓
I’m jealous
I’d say this is a good indication that Pritzker will not run for President and instead will go for another term as Governor…
I pray he doesn’t. He is destroying this state untethered. Something has got to be done. I can’t afford
another tax hike
He is running for president and ignoring problems at home.
Well he so t get my vote except if he was being sent to prison
As Rush always said "failure is a resume enhancement for Democrats."
I agree with ignoring problems here in Illinois. I think he’s solidifying CTU support for his re-election, because he doesn’t have the gravitas (I was going to say weight.) for a national run. Trump is turning his sights on the NEA, who are being minimized as a national force even as we speak…
Just had a couple of more thoughts. These sweeteners for the Police and Fire Departments are the easiest to “sell” to voters. Who can argue against cops and firemen, even while they’re being gutted by the mayor and the leftists in his administration? But now, will Pritzker not do the same for municipal workers? For teachers? Pandora’s box is now open…