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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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It’s interesting that you chose to comment on psychological soundness, despite that topic having nothing to do with the article.
Must have needed to vent his TDS.
There’s what they call Long Covid and there’s also Long TDS, which devours brain cells.
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Doing you remember when you were a kid and you had polio??? Of course not. Because your Mother got you vaccinated.
Duh!!
The covid vaccine is a complete and utter failure compared to the polio vaccine.
You are comparing apples to oranges – your analogy is specious.
It’s difficult to fathom that we live in a time, and era, where Joe Biden has politicized the CDC, and it can no longer be trusted, because it has been weaponized, and now is targeting Joe Biden’s political enemies. This is not hyperbole. It is fact.
Trump politicized the CDC long before Biden was elected. Nice try
Hahhaha
Defund the police…?
Defund the CDC, FDA, NIH…
Call get vaccinated and stop being an aghole. 89% Of people in the hospital with Cove it are unvaccinated. They Needlessly take up beds for people who genuinely need them through no fault of their own. In addition they are causing medical health insurance companies to raise the premium rates to pay for their care. Basically that means higher insurance premiums passed along to everybody even those who get vaccinated. Get your head out of your blowhole
Are you a Russian bot spreading misinformation? 89% of people in hospital are no unvaccinated.
Again, bad statistics erroneously applied.
I believe a term for this is ‘victim shaming.’ By your standards smokers, drinkers, the addicted, the homeless, and the obese should be denied care in lieu of ‘ … people who genuinely need them through no fault of their own.’
That’s a slippery slope.
Center for Dysfunctional Collation
Center for Dialectic Control.
For those not having nyt access, there’s a copy of the article at https://archive.is/FFKvK