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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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Finally a democrat judge is standing up for my privacy, I don’t have Wuhan virus, but what’s next? Big brother? A simple question by a paramedic “do you have Covid?” Is all that is needed, yes, no or I don’t know are the three possible answers. EMT can go on that.
HIPPA
Pritzker immediately responded to this judge’s action with a tirade about “insulting dead people” and making healthcare providers and first responders less safe. He said that this “foolish decision would kill millions of people and encourage many to stop following ‘the science’.”
Oh, wait. That actually didn’t happen. Since the judge made an overriding point of protecting the civil liberties of “black and brown communities,” Pritzker remained silent. He courageously only demagogues people with ideologies or politics opposed to his own, while “bringing us all together.”
Another piece of shit judge