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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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There is a solution to this “crisis”. It happens to be somewhere in South America.
“I detest cheap sentiment…”
“Mental health-care” is also difficult to obtain for Chicago taxpayers. It’s neither readily-accessible, nor necessarily affordable. Trib and Sun Times journalists are busy complaining about recently-arriving migrants’ government-provided accommodations and care. Meanwhile, long-time Chicago residents frankly can have same complaints, without any meaningful forum for proactive action from City of Chicago and Cook County government. We are edging towards implemented policy decisions, by local government agencies, which ensure better government-provided services and benefits available only for protected class of “recently-arriving migrants”, rather than Chicago’s longstanding homeless population, its drug-addicted population, and its welfare-recipient dependent population. Chicago agencies failed to “solve”… Read more »
Public ‘mental health’ services, in reality, means a 5 minute visit with a psychiatrist and two antidepressant prescriptions, and a follow appointment several months later. Fancier mental health treatment with psychologists, therapists and psychotherapists are expensive and reserved for the upper-middle class with disposable cash or Cadillac health insurance, because the treatment takes a long time. Few minimum wage workers ever say, “I’m upset today, lemme talk to my therapist”.
Long wait times for psychiatrist appointments. Plus many psychiatrists in private practice don’t even accept insurance payments, require full-payment in cash, actively seek patients who agree to cash-only services.
Most likely they will get some sort of anti psychotic meds from nefarious sources then take them for a while-stop and that’s when the problem starts or use some street drugs. If they can get a therapist from the city they will charge higher prices to the city then the citizens pay. This is a nightmare unfolding before our eyes.
This story has all the makings of a bad TV movie. This is nothing but a propaganda piece, and a poorly written one at that.
What do you expect from Leftist propaganda outlets like the Tribune and the Sun Times?
“He says he left his country because the government threatened his life and that there were nights when all he could do was cry in anger.” I stopped reading the article at this obviously fake and fantastical story. This is not journalism, it’s high fantasy. The story starts out with him being kidnapped? The Columbian government is out to get him? Come on, am I really that stupid? He clearly abandoned his family in Columbia with no means to support himself or his family for a life in America (and obvious hasn’t been supporting his family while he is here).… Read more »
You may not be that stupid, but perhaps the propaganda “reporter” is.
I think the bigger point is migrants can claim mental health as a reason for asylum. FYI, Calf/ Newson is OKing sex changes for migrants, so look for that to become a way for migrant to claim asylum in Illinois soon also.
This is one of those articles that when you read it, it just confirms that the city is a total loss. No recovery possible from the depths the city is sinking into.
I couldn’t finish the article with the clearly fake sob story the dude made up. This is the tall tale he’s supposed to tell every person he meets, especially immigration officers, so he can make an asylum claim. HE ABANDONED HIS FAMILY IN COLUMBIA and hasn’t supported them in months now. He’s a dirt bag who ditched out on his ‘wife’ and kids for a better life in America.