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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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Note the IDPH doesn’t have a Spanish version of their corona virus posters. Likewise no public signage of any note is being hung by anyone. This “reopening” will be a repeat of the Liberty Bond Parade of Philidelphia. The feminist public health cabal is too worried about frightening the children and too unimaginative to state the truth. Spit spreads Death. Too many depend on the death of workers to feather their beds to be honest about the harm they are placing their workers in.
This is hysterical nonsense. Spit does not spread death. The death rate is between .25% and .5%, which is worse that the flu, but way lower than plagues like SARS, Ebola or MERS. There are honest disagreements of policy arguments to be made between closing it all down completely and reopening with certain restrictions. Protect nursing homes and facilities with unhealthy residents. reopen the outdoors with social distancing where transmission of the red death appears to be almost non-existent, at least according to the studies. reopen the schools because all but the sickliest of children are asymptomatic, and the evidence… Read more »
Maria, Jesse says “If not you, who”!? You could translate the much needed posters into Spanish. ?
So crowded households and multi-generational living arrangements are responsible for the spread in african-american and hispanic communities. Seems reasonable, this is a similar situation in Queens, the epicenter of red death in New York. Stories coming of that area discuss the same factors – small apartments, multiple tenants sharing spaces, one story I read was multiple uber drivers sharing an apartment as roommates and they all got sick. The more dense north side areas are more individuals or couples crammed into units filled with electronic goodies like netflix, xboxes, big screen tv’s, pcs, laptops…there’s an occasional family here and there,… Read more »