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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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Where do I sign up to take the flu vaccine from 2019? Can I take the same thing every 3-6 months?
Because that would be awesome. I’d be super-virtuous and super-safe.
The vaccinated are the ones constantly getting Covid, and comfortably spreading it. Nobody in our extended family is vaccinated, we all got both variants of Covid, just once, delta and omicron. We have strong immunity. College students won’t want to give up the tools of their virtue signaling, masks and jabs.
The administrators making these decisions to force vaccinate need to be charged with Nuremberg code violations.