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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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Nixit to Potheads: You Stink
The Pritzker trifecta is a doped up young woman addicted to gambling who finds out she’s pregnant.
Many mass shooters have been cannanlbus users. Bobby Crimo was described as a stoner by people who knew him. The grandmother of thUvalde shooter coulsnt get him to stop using weed… Nobody needs products that 40% THC and higher
Marijuana makes kids lazy stupid and dull — just what kids need today.
Whatever happened to “second hand smoke”?
Yep, “2nd hand smoke” was a ruse to impose the anti tobacco smoking agenda. There wasn’t much of a pushback because smokers are scum anyway — kind of like white hetro males now. Tobacco taxes also give the government plenty of money to lavish on who knows what. Here’s a trivia question. When’s the last time you heard a PSA on smoking or were told where you could get help to quit a la Brooke Shields? It’s why cigarettes cost $10 a pack and was less than a dollar when I was a kid. It was one more step on… Read more »
it’s all about the money, money, money. Just like the jabs.
Pot, weed, cannabis is a gateway drug, plus has serious side effects. Pritzker and the Democrats – Dope people up particularly the young, and empty the prisons.
When I mention this, I typically get down votes. But pot, particularly in the higher THC concentrations, can cause significant problems in young people. The science is advancing, and while there are those who think pot use acceptable in young people, there is a growing body of evidence that pot can cause significant harm, including psychoses. There is a group called Johnny’s Ambassador’s, which does great work in explicating the dangers of pot in young people, especially the high THC variety freely available today. The founder lost a son to cannabis induced psychoses. The kid – bright – with a… Read more »
That $10,000 I was saving for college I can spend on weed now. Higher education at its best
A nation of doped up, gender bending illiterates.
JB Pritzker looks at this future and says, “Looks amazing!”
What a sick F that man is.
Well our Lt. Governor is a demand center for weed. Gee, I wonder if budget numbers look any better after a blunt.