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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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She is an actress.she might be a doctor but she is acting. I do not feel sorry for her ever since she began with the ads early on in this whole event. She and Pritzker and Lighthead and the rest of them think they know best. There is no science that is guiding them. It is all pure politics. Yes there is something out there but 97-98 % of people recover. I know people who had this and have since recovered. This is being put higher on the board than heart disease and cancer. Excuse me but there is more… Read more »
Many years there is a flu going around that the vaccine people say their vaccine didn’t cover.
As per above its just politics.