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“But if one were to look at how Illinois handled the pandemic – and this is kudos and gratitude to the people of Illinois – people did the right thing,” Gov. JB Pritzker said. “And the vast majority of people in Illinois understood what they needed to do. They heard what they needed to do from the experts, and they did it. And the result of that is, to the extent one can use the word ‘success’ here, the result is that we had real success here at keeping people safe and alive.”
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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Masks don’t work and I’m sure that fat slob knows it. I bet when he flies to his estate in Florida he doesn’t wear one, like last year when they caught AOC maskless in Florida on vacation.
I saw a cultist wearing a mask outside at the nursery as I shopped for petunias this past weekend. I appreciated it as it makes them easy to spot.
I point my finger and laugh at them when they wear masks. I saw a guy a few days walking in front of my house, in the rain with an umbrella, wearing a mask. Insanity
Fake as a 3 dollar bill. “Starting in February and March, I began writing down and looking at the numbers published by the Centers For Disease Control, and comparing them to previous years. I was writing down the numbers from the first week of the year, and comparing those numbers to the previous week in 2019. And after I had done this for 2 or 3 months, I noticed that someone had been doing the same thing, only more thoroughly going back several decades. What I was seeing was a sharp drop in the weekly mortality, referring to the previous… Read more »
Here’s a list of his COVID errors. Every single one of our criticisms proved to be correct.https://wirepoints.org/in-hopes-of-doing-better-next-time-heres-a-list-of-illinois-covid-policy-mistakes-wirepoints/