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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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And once again, a segment of the population gets preferential treatment ( and $$) to do what everyone else takes the responsibility for at their own expense.
Hmm, would wedlock improve black maternal health?
Is it legal for state of Illinois to provide health care services based on race?
No, but who is going to stop them from doing it? The Biden Admin? The leftwing nutjob courts?
Legal…..Ill………..same sentence???????????
Again, another example of Democrat delusions in a fake reality of conspiracy theories. Completely delusional Lt. Gov. Affirmative Action goes through life believing that the medical industry is trying to kill her and her child. Her one example of this insane belief is because during the 90’s or whenever, a white male doctor called her sweetheart. Then she manages to turn this into a conspiracy theory that white male doctors and the rest of the medical system are killing black pregnant women. Everyone in the medical profession knows that the elevated rates of black maternal deaths are because pregnant black… Read more »
Holy crap look who came out of the woodwork, another useless Illinois politician.