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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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BLM.
White lives do not matter.
Anyone playing with this Covid 19 is playing with fire.
A disease so deadly you need a test to find out if you have it.
It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that the same people who think they can/should control everything from the weather to the evil in your ugly human heart also believe it’s a great idea to quarantine the healthy.
this Lady is either incompetent or corrupt. Her numbers make no sense and are just flat wrong.
That’s 1.85% who may have it or 98.15% who do not have it. Out of population of 2.7M that means 2.65M do not have it. Another good reason to shut everything down.