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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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Well, the masks may be OK to take off now but that just makes it easier for the wilding Yutes, carjackers, and homeless crazies to size up their victims and attack you. A whole lot more relating to personal safety must change before I ever set foot in chicago again.
Walgreen’s, Target and CVS and many others who are jettisoning mask mandates which even the CDC likely didn’t help would be glad to take my money. Tick-tock…
I will just continue to bypass any place that requires a vax pass and a mask. No thank you.
“Craig Richardson, managing owner of Lincoln Park’s Batter and Berries”; “We are going to go with the city guidelines because we’ve trusted the experts and if they say it is OK, we just have to trust that…” What a dingbat, trusting the city, and Lori Lightfoot, who on day 1 of her CV case says “I had the vaccination so I have a mild case” not even understanding that’s not how the virus, or the vaccine, even works. AJ on 560AM the other day said Lori’s case progressed after that first day into a pretty rough case but didn’t require… Read more »