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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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The testing numbers are padded too. Each time ONE person gets tested and it is positive that is a new case despite it being ONE person being tested multiple times.
Are you knowledgeably stating people already having a positive test result are considered a new case if having another positive result even a day or two later? That seems goofy. If a second positive test occurred several days later and after the person was said to have recovered that really should be considered a NEW case, however. Are you saying no such distinction happens at present?
https://patch.com/illinois/chicago/should-we-believe-gov-pritzkers-coronavirus-testing-statistics
Go away James capital fax ass
Not on your life, Mr. Dumbashitski!
Holy moly, this broken clock is right twice in one day. James is correct, it is goofy. The testing procedures in IL are goofy, and the state and the city’s testing rates are different. According to the state, the same person could get tested 3x in a week, count as three different tests, and count as two negatives and one positives. Then if they test positive a few days later, they are another positive test; and when they test negative, they are a new negative test.. That’s what I’ve heard but the actual stats are top secret in IL databases.… Read more »
James, how do you manage to get more dense by the day?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, Mike. You either see it or you don’t. Maybe you need new glasses.
Is this story have legs. Has our Governor been negligent causing our State’s most vulnerable to needlessly die?
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/nursing-home-deaths-peak-illinois-gov-pritzker-slammed-failing-protect-states-most