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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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Why? The mandates have been lifted in Chicago, the CDC agrees, why continue the proof of vaccine mandate requirements?
Am I missing something?
I know chicago theaters are keeping the requirement because their patrons are mostly far left and elderly. These old people erroneously believe that vaccines stop the spread of coronavirus. As I saw someone mention (maybe here, even) that modern theater exists only to affirm the far left progressive beliefs of their patrons, and nothing more. The theater industry hopes the vaccine mandates are enough to lure the quadruple vaxxed, triple masked wearing leftist old fogeys out of their gold coast condos for the first time in two years.
It’s good to know the United Center is “following the science” … at least I’ll be able to use up those free test kits (thanks Joe!) on the kids.