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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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There are some reports that adding fluoride to water helps leach lead out of pipes. Fluoride is considered a neurotoxin. Fluoride can lower IQ levels and slows down your thyroid and affects fertility and maybe linked with aggression. This occurs over time (many decades) plus the cost of about .50-$1.00 per person per year. Considering that very little stays in your mouth to reduce cavities but is used for laundry/dishes/toilets (except for JB) etc most of it is wasted. The debate on how serious adding fluoride to water is should be addressed. FluorideAlert.org and Fluoride action network.org has more detailed… Read more »
This explains Chicago. The lead in the water explains the violent crime, and the socialism, and the degeneracy. Occam’s razor is that, of course, it’s the g.d. water.