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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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Climate change is a scam. Should we’d polutecless, Of course! Cli ate and sunspots are cyclical. When you expose the variables the experts become mutes!
Well they can all hangout at Foster Beach during a heat emergency!
Utter crap. The variations in heat within the city may be real, but the small increase in global temperatures (which itself is debatable) sure as heck has not created a deadly situation as described.
As I like to tell the climate change doom – mongers, “The *best* way to mitigate ‘global warming’ is air conditioning…!!!”
What I don’t understand, is that when I look at the map the Channel 2 weather person puts on the screen, it almost always shows suburban and exurbs temperatures HIGHER than the city. Rarely is the city hotter than the suburbs. It may be warmer at night, sure, but the highest tempurature is not hotter than the suburbs. Yet, the suburbs lack the killing.
BREAKING NEWS! NEWS ALERT! STANDBY!
The sun is racist!
Well that seals the deal, even Mother Nature is biased and discriminatory. We must rise up against this grave injustice and insist that Mother Nature create an office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion immediately. This office must be comprised of hundreds of people that sit around doing nothing. Only through this action can the climate be controlled to ensure fairness.
systemic racism and Climate Change! Oh Lawdy! Kim and Tim are going to drag Mother Nsture into court.
Be careful what you wish for, because mother nature is discriminatory, and governments often find that the best way to remedy mother nature’s discrimination is genocide.
“As climate change increases the frequency and intensity of heat waves” right off the bat the author starts spewing BS. Read Climategate by Brian Sussman, it debunks all these myths. Probably not their intention but lack of green space makes a perfect argument as to why LaSalle Street should not be converted to affordable housing.
Tribune Columnist Says Chicago Weather Is Racist White Supremacy