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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 Windy City doesn’t have a single windmill, what’s up with that?
Plenty of hot air blowing around up there too
I say we start by placing them off the coast of Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Hyanis Port.
Oops, I forgot Malibu.
Exactly what you’d expect from the NYT. People who believe that “climate change” is mostly woke vaporous nonsense badly camouflaged as “science” are victims of, and spreading, “misinformation.” We’re running out of oil, gas, coal and nuclear. Landowners who want to watch the sun set over their farm’s buildings and fields instead of a noisy 600 foot tall whirling windmill with lights on it are just selfish. We, and several of our rural neighbors, have been approached by the phone companies looking for places to plant their cell phone towers – we’ve all turned them down in spite of some… Read more »
Not to worry, government will screw up the economics of it and it will not happen. Illinois governments job is to destroy all businesses, and they do it so well.
As I said, the progressives in the state intend to destroy agriculture, and replace productive farm land, that actually feeds people and animals, with wind farms.
Thinking local, I propose that no further wind farms should be built in the region until Chicago builds their fair share of wind farms in the city proper. Chicago could place them up and down the lakefront or along the expressways. It is not equitable for Chicago to force rural areas to be the only place they are located when Chicago has the major power need. Let’s follow those DEI standards the city promotes.
Biden and the Democrats are implementing yesterday a $6.5 billion natural gas tax, a $12 billion crude oil tax, and a 1.2 billion coal tax that will increase the already rising heating bills and prices at the pump in their war against anything that doesn’t fit with their newest glamor of so called clean energy in a continued attempt to try and make their way look cheaper. Enjoy your new taxes folks
https://www.atr.org/list-of-biden-tax-hikes-hitting-americans-on-jan-1/
Landscape pollution, energy shortages and bird killers is what wind farms are.
Climate change is Bunk
Climate change, global warming or whatever can arguably be a natural phenomena that began 12 thousand of years ago with the end of the Ice Age. The real winners will be the politicians along with their well connected insiders, or cronies if you will,
Climate change began with the creation of earth…
It’s been changing ever since…
And will continue to change long after I’m gone…
The hubris of people thinking they can “control” it is laughable…
Spot on. If more dinosaurs died 350 million years ago there be more oil around today!
Living in Chicago, we always learned that the Great Lakes were formed by the recession of the glaciers and even Chicago was covered by ice. No one has yet explained to me how all that that ice could have melted all the way up through Canada. No autos, no fossil fuels being burned, how did it happen? Climate change did happen, but it wasn’t humans that did it.
Polar bear flatulence