-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
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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As others have said, I’m tired of playing pandemic. The masks are off, and anyone who tells people they have to put them back on isn’t reading the room very well.
Fauci is an unelected bureaucrat controlling the US population and economy. This has to stop now. Obviously Biden has left over vaccines so why not push a 4th? The prosecution will come for these people and it can’t be soon enough.
We can only hope.
I predict COVID case count, which we were recently told to ignore by the same government elites that told us for two years that was all that mattered in life, will be inversely related to the expected time remaining in the Ukraine conflict.
That’s likely.
Not to diminish the suffering of the people in Ukraine, DC politicians are using that horrific war to distract Americans from the debacle in Washington DC.
“Don’t look here, look there!!!”