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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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Does anybody just get the plain flu or common cold anymore or is it all named Covid?
Who gave anonymous “experts” who pay no price for being wrong authority over my kids health care decisions in the first place? Total government over reach, per usual in Illinois.
I don’t care what JB’s polling says (and he is doing lots of polling these days) he’s way behind the curve on mask mandates and covid restrictions.
Was out and about yesterday to a variety of stores no mask for me and wife and yes plenty and I mean plenty of others without masks, time to end this.
The voters need to remember this nonsense when they mail in their paper ballots.
boy you said it.
I will never forgive and I will never forget what my town- Oak Park- has done to me.
I have natural immunity and will never get any jab ever- and as a result I am banned from all cafes, restaurants, and also from my gym.
Everyone here of course wears their masks, inside stores and out on the street.
I am jeered at every week by some Karen or Ken- this will be the last town where they give them up.
they love their servitude.
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