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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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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.
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Equity (equal outcomes; the new Progressive / Leftist approach) vs Equality (equal opportunity; the traditional approach).
Although the words sound similar, their meaning differs dramatically.
Government policy as a result can differ dramatically depending on which approach / philosophy is used (equity or equality).
Any politician who runs on cutting, reducing, limiting pensions in any way will lose. Any politician who runs on raising taxes will lose. In order to work our way out of this morass, some combination of reducing pensions, other spending cuts, and raising revenue are necessary to pay down debt. They are bribing the people with their own money, or rather their descendants money, and have been for years now. We need some officials who will tell the truth and have the courage to do what’s right. Rauner’s “turn around agenda” would have been good. Put our business costs more… Read more »
Visionary’s almost never exist in government. They prefer the private sector. Why would any ambitious, honest, intelligent person want to deal with Illinois politics? If someone with those qualities were to run for office in this state, wouldn’t it bring into question their intelligence? Any visionary expecting to be a force for positive change in Illinois politics is therefore by definition, delusional. The true intelligent visionary is the one that realizes now is the time to wait. Illinois won’t accept a new vision until it hits rock bottom. It’s not there yet. Patience.
Short term plug until next election and “looking good”.
Hey, give the state a bone.
Teach it to live on fish you give it.
Never let it learn to fish.
Trust the science.
Tax and spend.
YaDa, YaDa. YaDa. More drivel from the state and not the brain dead feds.
Bailout a failed state.
We are so far from reality in Illinois that nothing much matters any longer.
It’s bail from the ship folks and swim for your lives.
Sorry, to be so negative. Life long resident watching this state commit suicide at the hands
of Union leaders and Democrats who got filthy and stinking rich off the masses.