-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
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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Lol
So the civil rights folks are ruffled at possibility that the digital data might be mis used by the government. it might not be constitutional.
a reasonable question.
but there are others issues that also deserve attention.
is it constitutional to destroy Federal state and private property?
it is constitutional to have never ending declarations of public health, enforced by threats of loss of business licenses for those deemed non compliant?
Where are these jokers when you need them?.