-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
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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Maybe we should link the Democrats in this crappy state to mental health issues
A nation of pot smokers is a nation of lazy fat imbeciles and neurotics
Nanny state republicans showing that they too love big government. I’m sure this will dissuade people from buying weed. Completely pointless.
Are you seriously advocating that warnings be taken off cigarettes too?
This issue is not a GOP talking point. Today’s cannabis has been linked to mental health issues.
A Columbia University study has found that teens who use cannabis recreationally are two to four times as likely to develop psychiatric disorders, such as depression and suicidality, than teens who don’t use cannabis at all.
https://www.columbiapsychiatry.org/news/recreational-cannabis-use-among-u-s-adolescents-poses-risk-adverse-mental-health-and-life-outcomes
Meanwhile liberal lunatics like this fruitcake are smoking pot with their kids:
https://www.newsleader.com/story/news/2019/03/02/mother-smoked-marijuana-her-son-and-helped-their-relationship/3046064002/
Follow the money, ALWAYS, follow the money.
They don’t give a rat’s patootie about users’ health, they CRAVE the tax dollar$. The NEED their next tax fix. They’re ADDICTED to OUR money.
They’re tax junkies.