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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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It should also be noted that while Pritzker blathers on about needing weeks to spin up contact tracing, other states, cities, and counties are taking thousands of applications and hiring by the hundreds already.
Maybe contract tracing is something he should have thought of weeks ago. He really thought this job was going to be super easy, just cutting ribbons and killing preborn babies and eating massive glutenous meals at magnificent feasts with other heads of state. And his record show that too – he signed like 600 all Democrat bills and vetoed only 8. He literally did nothing but sign other people’s bills, he had no agenda other than the progressive agenda of other house members, and he got to brag about infanticide, weed smoking, social justice and green energy. Unfortunately for this… Read more »
“Maybe contract tracing is something he should have thought of weeks ago.”
He stated he was “focusing” on contact tracing almost a month ago. Admittedly though, I think it was just an excuse to mention in his press briefing some phone call he had about it so as to give the appearance of actually having done something.
It states that Pritzker used the “models”. OK and why has no one seen these models?
Are they the same models that everyone else speaks of?
He just keeps moving the goalposts.
The so-called models are just graphs without public access to the methodology or data necessary to verify their legitimacy.
https://wgem.com/2020/05/11/governor-releases-updated-statewide-model-regional-metrics-for-restore-illinois-health-regions/
Brutal.