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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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When their lips are moving they are lying.
Just as a comparison to Covid deaths I would like to see the daily death rates in Illinois from cancer/heart disease/diabetes complications and other health problems that people die from. Everyday and I mean everyday the Covid death rate is on all news outlets. How many died from cancer or heart disease last Monday? Are the deaths of these people not as important as Covid deaths? Inquiring minds want to know.
Because you’re probably getting paid to sign death certificates for covid. Community medicine specialist?? Ok man. Continue with your unscientific approach. Have a word.
Just keep getting the jabs, keep wearing the masks (because they work), keep wringing your hands and make sure you give those nasty glares to people who don’t trust the government to know what’s best for you. Still waiting on some CDC guidance to exercise, eat healthy, and visit with friends/family. We will only get over this obsession with covid when the news reporters tell us too, or we turn off the television, and start thinking for ourselves. Don’t worry about the unvaxxed, they seem to be doing fine without your concern, and they’re more focused on living life.
BE FEARFUL! Especially the unvaccinated!