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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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I can assure you. There is a 100% chance of weather at any given time.
Speaking of idiots, there sure is a tremendous quantity of you here…
So you claim to believe in science. Would you care to explain the abuse of the scientific method by “climate scientists”? Tell us how it has in fact been implemented in reverse, with conclusions made and then data being misused to prop up said data? Of course not. It’s far easier to simply write us off as idiots.
“Science believer” with an ad hominem. Wish I had a buck for every time I’ve seen that.
Same. The game just isn’t much fun anymore. The pols still use the ancient divide and conquer tactics, but something has changed: education. Due to the awful state of public education, the useful idiots have become less useful and more idiotic.
So the powers that be keep telling them that they have the moral and intellectual high ground, but their overly simplistic, black and white worldviews prove the opposite on both counts.
China just completed two mega refineries this month. Probably cancels out anything Chicago does. Saw it on fox business.
It’s obvious what the scam is—they hire a bunch of CO2 police, raise taxes to pay for them, and use the money to pay for pensions.
aaah these people are so stupid! http://lre-wm.usace.army.mil/ForecastData/GLBasinConditions/LTA-GLWL-Graph.pdf
lake michigan water levels are cyclical! It has ZERO to do with Carbon Dioxide!
hot and dry, cold and wet
good god these people are soooooooooooo dumb, these fake climate alarmists truly aggravate me
Chicago is on a slippery slope and seem hell bent upon its destruction. At least their madness will become a warning to others when they begin to reap what they sow.
Just think of all the climate change caused by the release of hot air from virtue signaling.
China just built over 40,000 MW of brand new COAL Power Plants in just the last 1 year! Now, Chicago must raise taxes and seize wealth by confiscatory means.
One much needed and easy way to start is to prevent the ill conceived and unneeded clear cutting of over 600 mature trees in historic Jackson Park, trees that absorb CO2 and release oxygen and replacing this existing healthful natural setting to create space for a 235 foot high OPC office building and related collateral construction directly in the path of endangered international migrating birds that rest and nest in the public park and further support this already existing and much needed natural environment retreat in a time of climate climate due to urban expansion.
Broken link on this now fixed.
And to think there is zero , 0, evidence man made Co2 is causing an increase in temperatures. In fact, all the objective verifiable evidence proves that changes in Co2 is derived by changes in Temperature! The reason for the CO2 – Temperature relationship is coupled is thus: When the atmosphere of the planet warms up, it warms the upper layer of the ocean waters. This causes the oceans to release CO2 into the air in order to feed plants since the planet is warming. When the planet cools, the plants die off plus the oceans cool. The oceans being… Read more »
Gee…maybe God knew what he was doing during creation and those of us temporarily living in it shouldn’t worry quite so much.
As George Carlin noted … The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles … hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages … And we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet isn’t going anywhere. WE are!