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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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More taxpayer’s money going to waste.
Contact tracing was a scam from day one. It was never going to work, and did absolutely nothing to curb the spread of the virus. It did allow for free money to be spread to the chosen few. And make no mistake, there was little to no actual work done. Many people received two year “contracts” to do the “work”, then sat around doing nothing but cashing checks.
Yup that’s how Springfield scum works
Maybe it’s just me but doesn’t a contact tracer have to go to the persons house and interview them about who they have been with. Then they pick up the virus and give it to others. They should be called Contact Tracing Virus Spreaders.