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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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Does the vaccine card really matter? With the waning effect depending on what and when the vaccine people took efficacy has been greatly reduced. So what is needed is a photo card like Marty McFly had in Back To the Future where his family is disappearing.
The Marty McFly disappearing Vaccine photo card. Even if only 1% of the card is left you can still enter the restaurant.
whenever you see “here is what we know” they don’t know nuttin
What’s sad is that everyone hates the vaccine mandates but not a peep from the local media complaining about it. It’s almost as if it doesn’t exist. They’re not even reporting which businesses have been fined because there’s a lot of political crackdown in the more red leaning parts of the county. Not a peep! Just a few nobodies on twitter complaining about the mandate. Even the businesses, which we all know are dying out there, aren’t even complaining. It’s pure propaganda, really. Shameful. I personally won’t be eating in Cook County any more, even though I live here (only… Read more »
The headline should read… “When will Chicago make it legal for all residents to eat in a restaurant”. I have no problem Chicago making it illegal for me to eat there forever. Their loss of my money.
The irony is that politicians, and restaurants in highly vaccinated areas, don’t care if you or I eat there.
***—The seven-day rolling averages for each category need to be at a “low transmission” level, which is set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.—***
You mean the CDC that only releases a fraction of the data it collects, that CDC…???