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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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Most of the US distrusts the fake news fraud Democrat-controlled media already. The United States ranks last in media trust — at 29% — among 92,000 news consumers surveyed in 46 countries.
https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2021/us-ranks-last-among-46-countries-in-trust-in-media-reuters-institute-report-finds/
Both sides of the political divide? Just what circulated conservative newspapers is he talking about?
What about WaPo and NYT? With all their “unnamed sources” spewing fake stories on Russia, Hunter’s laptop, origin of Covid? Are Warren’s favorites any more reputable? His reputation from Trib days has cratered, showing his true colors that he hid under the old Trib’s journalistic standards.
Fake faxes are everywhere too
Is he including the Chicago Tribune?
I liked much of what Jim Warren did while at the Tribune years ago and much that he says here is true. But my opinion of him went to zero when I read here he is with Newsguard. Newsguard is itself a wildly biased operation supposedly policing misinformation dominated by MSM.