-- 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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Sadly people die from bad decisions/life choices they make. Junkies are that, junkies. Rehab works about 5% of the time. Their deaths are no loss to society. Harsh but a reality.
So our morgue handled excess coronavirus deaths just fine but it needs refrigerated trailers for fentynal deaths? something’s not right here
Some politician’s relative has a refrigerated truck business. Just normal procedures in Crook County
I encourage Wirepoints readers to research how the Chicoms dealt with their opium crisis after they took over in 1949.
Don’t worry, Be happy. These deaths are just an unintended consequence of the Brandon border policy. So what if a little illegal poison slips through the border. It makes Brandon and Kammie happy.