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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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Another stupid move. Makes no sense. It risks exposing more and more people. Moving these people around the damn city does nothing but spread it. Stop doing that please….
The “ Cuomo Covid Model “ . Take people with covid and put them in nursing homes and thus the most vulnerable, the elderly, come down with covid. How he escaped prosecution for it remains a mystery .
Moving migrant measles-exposed unvaccinated moms/children to hotels = spread measles virus via downtown hotel-exposure to other hotel guests and hotel employees. We’ll have pandemic shortly.
Measles outbreak could easily have been predicted by consulting Dr Awardy. Thank you, Mayor Johnson for your foresight in firing the one responsible professional in City Hall.
Not sure why the hotels are unnamed. Are they Hyatts?
I am sure they are Hyatts, and half of the rooms have already had their toilets removed, it saves property taxes.
El Gordo makes sure of that.
QUIT EXPOSING AMERICANS TO PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT VETTED AND ARE SICK…THIS IS NOT FAIR TO US SO YOU CAN HAVE VOTERS