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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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Why not add to the narrative with the [FALSE] data provided by Sotomayor that 100K kids in this country are on ventilators because of covid. Someone needs to tell her watching CNN does not count as getting actual information. God help this country!!
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Running out of hospital beds is the biggest danger of Omicron? Then why has the Pritzker administration let the supply of ICU beds collapse by nearly 1,000 A real reporter would ask these questions
Maybe firing healthcare workers en masse during a “pandemic” isn’t such a good idea?
But hey, the chaos only furthers the narrative!
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