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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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Black mayor, black county board chairman, black in charge of the Illinois dept public health. Trumps fault.
The left is whining about racial disparities of vaccinations in a city run by a Black mayor with a far left City Council in a state run by a Democrat Governor with a Democrat legislature. Priceless
And yet their lower information voters still fall for this nonsense.
The first round of vaccines were given to health care workers. That all but guaranteed a racial disparity. The woke crowd is so happy to have another thing to point fingers at.
Thank you corrupt media for turning everything into a racial arguement. Useless media.
It isn’t racial if it is not denied because of race, and if the people are either too stupid or too lazy to get in line to be vaccinated it is on them not some boogey man racist. Lots of people are denied and have to try repeatedly before they get through. Some people just want it brought to them at home and given to them with a lollypop at the end. Grow the hell up and take charge of your life.
All people hold some level of prejudice… Even if it is small, even if they are able to check these unconscious moments of bias…
By the way the MSM and Lib-left craft these articles, it is conscious and deliberate, pervasive and extreme… And, sadly, once they realize they were fighting themselves, they will only have a pyrrhic victory to celebrate.
I got shot #1 at Osco and it went smoothly except for a couple of people who were an hour early for their appts and tried to jump the line. Overlooked aspects of older white people being ahead in the effort to vaccinate may include the facts that older whites are better educated and have more experience with community cooperation than the other groups who are struggling.
I wouldn’t touch the EXPERIMENTAL WHUHAN shot with a 10 FOOT POLE!
Frontline Doctors have a good report out on the shot!
Leave it up to the MEDIA to make a RACIAL thing about who receives shots.
Shameful HCQ and other proven treatments were kept out of the hands of covid sufferers by DEMOCRATS! And shameful Democrats threatened any Doctor who prescribed HCQ!
Same here. Going with my gut and will avoid.
The article admits: “It’s possible some majority-white zip codes have higher rates of vaccination in part because they have higher concentrations of people in groups prioritized for the first round of vaccines.” But the USA TODAY ‘journalists’ say yeah, we’re going to ignore this absolute fact and focus on the equity narrative instead, even if it makes no sense in light of the data. The most vulnerable population – the elderly – is mostly white. Not because of ‘systemic racism’ or ‘white supremacy’ but because they were mostly born before the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965… Read more »
Very good response today.