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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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Wasted? High paying doing nothing phone bank jobs funneled to Democrat operatives is considered waste?
The goal of contract tracing was never to stop outbreaks! It was to provide democrats with jobs!
The contract tracers called me once: They wouldn’t tell me who I came into contact with that had the virus. What use is contact tracing if you can’t tell me who I came into contract with! So I told the nice lady that I don’t discuss my life with strangers, and I hung up on them.
Mark–congrats getting wp articale picked up in trib. Hate to say, but with all the buyouts/ consolidation at trib could that open the door for wp and others to get thier articale picked up? The tribs going to have a lot of space to fill.
Sure would be nice to have one of the local news media stations pick up wirepoints weekly to inform the people of Illinois what’s really going on, something in the line like Flannery fired up on Friday’s on fox 32. I would bet more than half of the voters have no clue what’s happening, that’s how ignorant most are or just don’t give a damn.