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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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Wait until the first CO2 escape, 300 to 400
People dead, then the finger pointing will start. El Gordo will say it wasn’t his intention.
This carbon capture nonsense is part of the green energy scam. All the politicians supporting this should be voted out of office and the billions of dollars of taxpayer money they were planning to spend on this boondoggle directed at programs that actually improve peoples lives.