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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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The whole idea that “science” can somehow justify suspending our civil liberties and force us to mask up, vaccinate, quarantine healthy people, and test people indefinitely to make sure that they aren’t infected with covid needs to be squelched. As British Rabbi Jonathan Sacks said: “Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.” In other words, science only tells us what is. It doesn’t tell us what policies to… Read more »
Double Secret Probation?
far far too few
Even fewer after those schools cave in to the governor. These schools will change their tune once their students can’t play sports and their funding is cut. The leaders of these school districts will capitulate and tell their parents that they tried but the mean old governor threatened them. This is all theater. Not to worry, soon all these Hicksville schools will be wearing their masks. The local rubes will fall for all of this.
It sounds like you’re clinging a little too bitterly to your beloved mask mandates.
You can mask up and vaccinate all you want, but you need to leave everyone else alone and mind your own business.
If your mask and your vaccination actually work, then you have no need to worry about the vaccination status of others and whether others are wearing masks.