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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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Their “remarkable Tool” Does virtually nothing to stop the spread of COVID. The lies just never stop and the vaccinated seem to get off on virtue signaling that they have taken the Jab. My position still has not changed and current data has only hardened it. I have no desire to partake in the experiment being performed on the citizens of this nation. I have had COVID and I survived with flying colors. Take your Vax and give it to someone who is far more compliant than I am. I will never shop in Oak Park.
What goes unsaid in the editorial is who makes up the unvaccinated in the Oak Park area. According to Chicago COVID site, less than half of African Americans in Chicago are fully vaccinated. Austin is almost entirely AA. How’s Hispanic Berwyn/Cicero doing? Maywood/Bellwood?
Oak Park thinks by shunning the unvaxxed they are thumbing their nose to downstate Trump supporters and dirty Republican southerners. But those folks aren’t walking around Oak Park nor are they taking the CTA downtown. The average Oak Parker is exponentially more likely to catch COVID from an unvaxxed minority or like-minded liberal than any Republican.
You must understand, Nixit, what you say/virtue signal is all that matters.
Deeds and their real life consequences are merely incidental nuisances to combat with narratives.
How does Oak Park feel about showing your ID to vote? Because that’s the “proof” required by Cook County.
Unvaccinated 5+ kids will be excluded from all Oak Park park district programs starting Monday, courtesy of Theresa Chapple-McGruder, Oak Park Villager of the Year according to that vile article authors.
Democrat Racists love this kind of stuff. Few if any black children will be allowed into park district programs because they are mostly unvaccinated. It’s not like there are tons of MAGA kids in Oak Park – the unvaccinated children are overwhemling minorities. This is quite possibly the most vile and insidious work around to the civil rights act I’ve ever seen. It denies mostly black children access to public facilities. Its 1962 all over again in Oak Park and they should ashamed.
Hey OP,
A mother was carjacked while picking up her child at school- and you worry about Vax!!!
No wonder OP sucks!! Liberals who cannot find their way home!
Oak Park/River Forest are bastions of uber liberal thinkers. They are willingly lining up to take their government mandated showers (think Auschwitz)
All China virus did was expose the tiny dictators among us for who they’ve been all along.
They’re the people you always knew you didn’t want to live near. Now they’re just easier to spot.
“We have no sympathy for the unvaccinated. Actually we have contempt for them and we don’t want them sitting near us coughing on our popcorn at the Lake Theatre.If the minority will not permit themselves to be persuaded then they must be separated. They’re the ones making the choice.” Well, I feel the same about you, spreading such misinformation and lies. Vaccinated spread covid just as much as the unvaccinated. Do you not follow the science or are you a science denier? Now that you have declared yourself my enemy, and won’t allow me to participate in public life, I… Read more »
Just wait until the violence starts and lets see how their “contempt” works out for them. Feelings < Fists.
The violence has already begun and will likely increase. ‘Nuff said.
The only violence was coming from the ‘mostly peaceful protests’ last summer. Republicans don’t use violence, – we can win at the ballot box.
Just not in this state.
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That’s funny ! I have had contempt for liberals in Oak park for at least the last 40 years. All of you lunatic Leftists should be contained by a high wall to your vaccinated onclave.