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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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Drop the vaccine mandate and invite those medical professionals who were heroes last year and zeroes this year, back to their old jobs.
This is a policy-driven problem. The people who created this problem now want a pat on the back for responding to it?
I think not!
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Who are these people, we’re did they come from they sure didn’t fall out of the sky, are they qualified medical staff why weren’t they deployed at the beginning of the Covid-19’s onset. Someone have any answers 2,000 people out of nowhere fishy to me sounds nothing more than a campaign ploy by Pritzker.