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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 see she’s refusing to say where the goalpost will be moved to this time, not many places left to move it to Lori.
Seems appropriate here.
“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.” Orwell
GTFO of Illinois, no masks in Indiana,no vaccine passports,lower taxes,lower insurance on home,car,more choices for health insurance,less crime,more guns,fireworks,no Lori,no JB. As more tax payers flee whoever is left is going to have to cover for them, Biden’s bailout won’t last forever.
Where is there? Hard to specify ‘there’ when it really boils down to when you feel like it! Maybe it’s not Lori’s decision!
An old idiom asks how do you get a donkey to move? Put a carrot on a stick. Masks are a cover for cash and prizes from the US Treasury: The Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF). Its part of the American Rescue Plan, delivers $350 billion to state, local, and Tribal governments across the country to support their response to and recovery from the COVID-19 public health emergency. Mayor Hee Haw wants her promised freebies
Meanwhile, Rock Miller over at Crap Fax is upset that 100 years ago, his grandparents ignored a fourth but really deadly wave of the Spanish Flu (which he won’t even call the Spanish Flu to be politically correct). He is truly angry that the media, and his grandparents, over 100 years ago, because they mostly ignored the fourth wave. It’s the top article on his conspiracy theory blog right now. This is pure craziness. He wants to be angry about things that happened 100 years ago because it doesn’t fit his narrative from today.
“What’s past is prologue.” Maybe that’s his sense of it.
Indeed. Too bad they never seem to learn from it.
Did Rick happen to remark about the mass inoculations regarding the swine flu? The inoculations were given on an assembly line basis in 1976?
Oh I guess he wouldn’t would he?
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/swine-flu-vaccine#:~:text=There%20were%20two%20major%20vaccine,effective%20but%20caused%20side%20effects.
Chicago is effed up.
Politicians always cite data. What data? Please share it with us and the reasoning.
She refuses to lift the mask mandates because she’s feeling strong internal pressure to keep them. She lives in a covid bubble of crazy people who triple mask and are triple vaxxed.
The pressure to lift the mandates are coming from outside authorities, especially from the DNC and democrat party, that fear massive blowouts in Nov because of draconian masking restrictions.
But you know how Lori feels about authority telling her what to do. She’s rather blow it all up than do the right thing and take some one else’s advice. Major personality flaw.
That’s right Lori, never let sound decision making get in the way of keeping control over the peasants. Keep your foot on the necks of the voters. Illinois will be the last state in the union to give up on mandates, and Chicago will do its part. Insanity.