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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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Another brilliant article by the Scum Times.
more lies, most coal plants can easily be fitted to produce near zero polluiton (particulate matter, SO2 and NOx emissions, mercury emissions), so now the Plant Food Nazis declare Plant Food to be pollution too.
FAILED STATE ALERT: Illinois Still Has A Few Coal Fired Power Plants — Despite The Efforts Of Green Grifter Illinois Democrats To Ban Them – Chicago Sun-Times — When Illinois’ Green Energy Fiasco Flames Out In A Few Years — And Illinoisans Are Shivering In The Cold Winter Months — We Can Burn Democrats To Keep Warm
Emission Spewing?? There’s no way the coal plants can spew more toxic pollutants compared to when a politician opens their mouths. Hot air the pols spew is the main reason for climate change. Someone should tell that to Greta.
Ah yes, little Greta, the wunderkind. She can’t keep up in school so her hippie freak parents turn her into a marketing tool. Why the world is turned on by a 17 year old that knows next to nothing is beyond me.