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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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A 99% recovery rate, most people have to get tested to know they are sick, yet everyone must take a vaccine “for the greater good”? Greater good of what? Where is the America I know?
The vax is like holy communion for the regime. The vax separates the true believers and compliant citizen from the apostates, heretics and infidels.
The police realized long ago they have few friends. The vax mandates aren’t for the protection of anyone; they are to purge officers, mostly conservatives, who disagree with the regime. Like the sun-times article suggested, they should be replaced with a brown shirt multi-ethnic social justice force instead. Safer neighborhood aren’t necessarily safe from crime, they are safe from conservative police officers.
Now bend the knee and raise your fist at BLM Sq. bigot, or my knee will be on your neck.