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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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So when will they admit that the lockdowns(15 days to flatten the curve?) have not been effective? I know the answer. Never! Because it was never about the pandemic , it is all about control of the lemmings!
This makes no sense, people are being vaccinated, or are already immune, and cases seem kind of steady in the 2,000 range per day (mostly among younger people, they claim). This is pure fear mongering, and lying, so they can keep control for just a little bit longer, as people begin returning to their regular routines, whatever the new regular now is. Probably won’t include going downtown 5x a week.
It’s not about cases or hospitalizations. It is about totalitarian control of the masses. There are still too many small businesses and people with extra money. Money is power.
And no sign it won’t. Honestly, the team of docs advising LL and JB seem to represent the C team… But, at least we check a bunch of boxes…
Oh, how the media and their camera-craving MD spokespeople LOVE them “cases.”
Cause otherwise they got nothin.’
Crime stats are so….yawn….the ever-living but unfindable VIRUS is the thing!!