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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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Illinois and California calling monkeypox a state of emergency event
https://www.rt.com/news/560093-us-states-monkeypox-emergency/
Here’s an article from Yahoo on JB. The comments are good. Does anyone know what PathGroup is? Someone made a comment about JB and his investment.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/il-governor-declares-statewide-public-214605390.html
Criminal gun violence affects far more people than this…
Where’s the public health emergency proclomation for all the lead flying around…?
It’s only a public health emergency among those who have anal sex with men and monkeys. For the rest of us…….not so much. Watch out Bubbles.
5 deaths world wide. How about naming obesity a health crisis,maybe our gov. can get down to svelte 250.
says it all
Spot on.
We live in Orwellian times with Democrats – Pritzker declares IL a ‘disaster area’ for Monkeypox, while saying it’s rare. Is even so dishonest that he can’t say that nearly all the cases are amongst promiscuous homosexual men.
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize…”
Wait, is this one of those things we can’t talk about because it could offend someone? It’s hard to remember all the rules these days.
Porky is just doing this to go after more Fed Bucks. What a pig. He can’t get more than two feet away from the trough.
schlong covid
A two-word comment that wins the internet.
I must give credit to the source of the term: Tucker Carlson!