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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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Sad people are dying in the nursing homes but… Point #1. Articale states–“The case numbers include residents and employees who have symptoms but have not yet had a test confirm COVID-19.” How many of the deaths are simply ATRIBUTED to covid vrs confirmed as covid as main cause?, Point #2. Sad to say but people are dying all the time in nursing homes, but if a resident is 90, on verge of death with stage four cancer or something and passes away and maybe test positive for covid then state can claim them as covid death stat anyway? Come on!!
This is the point that I have been making with others. I heard of someone who was in a car accident and unfortunately passed away at the scene. A covid test was done after the fact at the hospital and it came up positive. Cause of death -covid.
Dr. Ezike openly said just that. If somebody dies for any reason and they have the virus, the virus is shown as the cause of death.
So it would seem next simple stupid/dumb question nobodies asking– have nursing home deaths skyrocketed now vrs post pandemic? Or is rate about the same? Or one could ask same question in general about all of illinois or us .