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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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Somebody needs to clue Pritzker in that the Covid crisis is old news and the new crisis is Russia, Russia, Russia to mold the voters minds for the upcoming midterms.
If it isn’t one distraction it’s another. Anything to shift attention from the administration’s disasters: Afghanistan, inflation, COVID mandates, closed pipelines, open southern border, rising gas prices, etc. Total mismanagement.
Where’s Fauci? Haven’t seen or heard from him since mid-February. Guess polling shifted and he’s out.
What irks me is that politicians and the media play us for fools. And, yes, Riverbender, you’re spot on … it’s all political theater to mold minds for the upcoming midterms.
Bah!
Sorry- I found Fauci
https://dossier.substack.com/p/wheres-fauci-infamous-bureaucrat?s=r
I will now try to find Waldo.
watching Fox News 32 Chicago they have a poll going asking Does Pritzker deserve to be re-elected, even though it’s unofficial 80% say NO and 20% say yes is this possibly telling him (us) something.
About Time. Now they can address the real issues of Herpes-Aids-Syphilis-Crabs (Alaskan King)-Gonorrhea-Chlamydia-HPV-Scabies (you can get Ivermectin for that one)-Warts and ingrown toenails.