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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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I have not seen one single article that states plainly what the issue is with the new variant. Is it more deadly ? Is it more debilitating? Does it produce spontaneous bleeding? Or is it just more transmissible? This smells of nothing other than complete BS to gin up the fear and keep the control in place.
The vaccines don’t work but it’s mandatory you receive the vaccine? Hmmmm! The Biden administration are the greatest assets for the republicans! Keep up the good work!
Prtizker and his IL Democrat puppets will be pushing for more statewide lockdowns and this variant will be their excuse. Pritzker wants to polish up his democrat credentials in preparation for his 2024 run at the Presidency.
No! President Pritzker? Absolutely, NO!