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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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Jabba is admitting he failed. He’s admitting he has no ideas and he’s panicking.
He talks about ‘working the phones’ all the time. You know how else works the phones? Low life telemarketers. They ‘work the phones’ too, cold calling people. How about jabba get off his asx and start making some masks himself. How about he help out some doctors? Get off the phone you lazy bum.
Wow. Importing poor quality, defective and substandard crap from China in order to virtue signal their superiority to the President. How about Jabba and Dick and their families actually use this imported garbage.
Doesn’t anyone question the judgment of Durbin and Jelly belly getting PPE from CHINA? What is wrong with you? What is wrong with you? Seriously? It’s more important to virtue signal that they’re not racist towards China, unlike Trump! Better to have defective PPE because Orange Man Bad!
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52092395
“A number of European governments have rejected Chinese-made equipment designed to combat the coronavirus outbreak.
Thousands of testing kits and medical masks are below standard or defective, according to authorities in Spain, Turkey and the Netherlands.”
Talk about grandstanding, boy what a impressive group signing the letter that went to trump.