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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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“Homosexual behavior has been recorded in over 450 different species of animals – from bison to beetles. But Hayes’ research showed that atrazine exposure made these frogs 7 times more prone to homosexual behavior and 10 percent of the exposed frogs actually became feminized. … The reproductive problems Hayes is seeing in his specimens aren’t limited to frogs. Studies on rats, reptiles and even human cells exposed to atrazine showed similar results.” – Ashley Ahearn
Well, Duh! That’s why I use 2,4-D to kill the weeds in my lawn!
Count on that crowd for more performative fraud virtue signaling cosplay that fixes no real world problem
What could go wrong?
As an older conservative gay guy, I consider the current crop of “queer” activists just about the nuttiest bunch out there – and there are LOTS of nuts on the leftist “tree”…