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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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Where TF is my free paid health care? I have only paid taxes for about 50 years!
Look on the bright side. Docs can now get training in Third World diseases without going to the Third World!
Win-win!
Soon we will have Black Death-Spanish flu-and the Plague of Justinian (Bubonic again)-Rabies and toenail fungus by the millions. Who is checking their health history from their native countries? No One is!
Today a Republican delegation is at the border including the speaker and as they spoke more were crossing the border. Not one Democrat was there.
If we keep on this path , soon there will be an epidemic in the USA of lead poisoning. Keep on pushing and things will explode.
Gosh, to think I take my health seriously. I even have a filing system for all health care bills and correspondence, receipts for invoices paid, etc.
What’s wrong with me? Where can I get help?
I even paid COBRA premiums out of my unemployment compensation several times during my working career. I feel like such a fool. I’m gonna change my handle to Viejo Jose….