Anon's not sure if it was caught, but those images in pb, Vegas Mandalay area..are very interesting..1st thing noticed was backward (mirror) image 23. There are also other interesting reflections in these as well. Here's the convo:
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Don't know..there are quite a few things to examine in these..did a reverse image..came up 0 so these are not reproduced from other images..also take note of the final message from the poster which was…
>>8905546 (You)
Chuckle tee hee hee sum 1 soon!
This referred to the number 23..
(me)
Hmm interesting vantage point to the Mandalay..the reflections in the night image are very interesting..seeing the #23 backward. Who will be feeling pain, I wonder.
Indeed, the poster stated their summer home was the Delano..which..is this image..
Thanks anon, I see it now..
States Made Risky Bets with Pensions Before Coronavirus. Now They Want a Bailout.
Staring down the coronavirus's effect on their budgets, states like New Jersey and Illinois are calling on federal leaders to backstop public pensions as part of future coronavirus relief. Democratic leaders in those states are pushing the federal government for billions in funding to shore up underfunded public pensions. Democrats in Congress have made bailouts for state and local governments a major priority for the next round of coronavirus stimulus, even allowing a major small business loan program to run dry as Republicans refused to package a renewal with more cash for states.
But the pension shortfalls are not just a product of the bear market, experts tell the Washington Free Beacon. Some states now seeking bailouts are in part covering for more than a decade of economic mismanagement, having chased increasingly risky investments to fund generous benefits at low up-front costs. Bailouts would allow states to dodge hard questions about the viability of excessively generous public pensions. Illinois state senate president Don Harmon (D.) over the weekend sent a letter to the state's congressional delegation asking for $10 billion for the state's chronically underfunded public pension system. On Tuesday, New Jersey state senate president Stephen Sweeney (D.) expanded on Illinois's request, asking for $500 billion in federal loans to buckling state pensions across the nation. The National Governors Association has called for $500 billion for fiscal relief generally, some of which would undoubtedly go to state pensions.
Andrew Biggs, a pension expert at the American Enterprise Institute, told the Washington Free Beacon that a bailout for Illinois could break the dam of federal funding: "If Illinois got money, then everybody's going to ask for it, because all of these pensions have some level of funding problems. I think this is the feeler to see what happens." The requests for a pension bailout follow crippling losses thanks to the coronavirus-driven downturn. Credit rating agency Moody's estimates that state and territory pensions have lost about 21 percent of their value, close to $1 trillion. By comparison, 401(k)s have lost about 11 percent on average since the market went south. Advocates of a bailout argue that states are the front line for the fight against the coronavirus. State spending has risen just as standard sources of revenue—sales taxes, income taxes, etc.—are either delayed or drying up altogether.
But data reveal that state pensions have been a ticking financial time bomb for years, chronically underfunded and ill-prepared for a recession. As of 2017, analysis from the Pew Charitable Trusts finds there was a $1 trillion gap between state pensions' assets and liabilities. Some states, including New Jersey and Illinois, held as little as one dollar for every three of outstanding liability. States pension funds last took a beating during the Great Recession, with every state feeling at least some heat. But states responded differently—the eight best-funded states had rebounded 95 percent by 2017, while the 20 worst-funded states saw funding drop from 76 percent in 2007 to 56 percent in 2017. "The general narrative of pensions over the past 10 years is that we're back on track, we're doing okay, our rate of return assumptions are alright, we're making our contributions," Biggs said. "Now they get hammered again, and there's been kind of willful ignorance among a lot of them about what's involved in really running one of these things."
https://freebeacon.com/policy/states-made-risky-bets-with-pensions-before-coronavirus-now-they-want-a-bailout/