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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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So now we know the King has caved inti the teacher’s union’s demands.
The Heat Now needs to be turned up to Rid any and all
VACCINE Passports in Illinois!
Yes, get rid of any form of vaccine passport or vaccine requirement. Between the masks and the proof-of-vaccination mandates, it’s difficult to say which is more pointless, but both are deeply insidious in aggrandizing the power of governors, state and local agencies, and public and private sector bureaucrats. Pritzker’s latest decree still does not get us out of the woods vis-a-vis masks. Per the ABC-7 report, “Pritzker said that local jurisdictions and businesses may still require stricter rules than the state, and must be respected,” and of course, “Schools are governed by a separate mandate, and will be addressed separately,”… Read more »
And also remember he said before if you had a vaccine you wouldn’t have to wear a mask.
Jurisdictions that keep masks will suffer from major self-inflicted wounds. They will pay a high price for their virtue signaling.
Now losing in court the King backs off slowly knowing by doing it slowly many will recognize why go to court when it will be forgotten after a month or two.
It’s clear that there is messaging. I can tell you for a fact as a health care worker (plus) that the decisions were made before official announcements of MANY THINGS for the last two years. It is a conspiracy. Will it all fall, though? Let’s see.
It’s funny that certain people downvote the truth. Haha, the internal channels are interesting and the next thing will be to see how people react to the dominion scandals in MI and GA that are being released right now.