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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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The large, heavy blinders on Ms Landon are proof enough she should not be setting policy for anyone anywhere.
Proof that they are very ineffective. The gold standard of immunity is the get the virus, then recover. Or get the virus and receive monoclonal antibodies single generation cloned from the antibodies of another patient. That too is super-immunity, the dose of monoclonals in addition to your own response antibodies saturates you with protection. The biggest failure in all this has been the poo-pooing of herd immunity, jumping straight to an genetically engineered “vaccine” and the political hamstringing of our doctors. Its as though our medical community suddenly became stupid at the time we needed them the most. I stopped… Read more »
Just how much stock in big Pharma does Emily Landon have…?
Go to hell, period