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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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I wonder if this is even considered for mental health. Lack of quality food choices especially in food desert parts of inner cities make it difficult to address mental health. A high quality multi vitamin AND mineral /Vit D/Omega 3’s will go a long way to addressing this problem. Instead politicians will debate until the end of time and hand out dozens of mood altering drugs/SSRI’s/etc which only “maybe” treat the symptoms. It would not cost much and some of the local clinics could do a study.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2738337/
https://www.healthstandnutrition.com/nutrition-for-mental-health/
Good point – good nutrition and proper hydration are essential to mental acuity and stability. Wonder how many lives might have been saved if monitoring of vitamin D levels were mandated during the COVID outbreak instead of emergency use vaccines, lockdowns, social distancing, and masks. I not aware of anyone dying or being disabled by being screened for vitamin D levels, but I do know that experimental vaccines have produced serious and sometime fatal side effects. You’d never know that by watching only MSM. Put some resources into nutrient screening and distribution of high quality multi vitamin AND mineral /Vit… Read more »