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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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As long as the amberlamps show up when Shitavious has the “vapors” all is good. Meanwhile a 79:yr old Norwood Park resident is having a stroke and CFD will show up in 3 days.
Other than one anecdote, the article really doesn’t provide any statistics. How many runs so far this year? How does that compare to, say five years ago? How many paramedics does CFD have? How much overtime is being worked?
I can believe that more staff are needed, but there needs to be some evidence.
Treat first responders like garbage and then express dismay when nobody wants to work here. Genius.
I wonder how much crime factors into this. What kind of protection does a paramedic have going into some of these areas? Don’t even have enough cops to answer 911 calls. Where are the majority of the calls at?
In lower income neighborhoods where the locals use the ambulance as a taxi to get to the ER which they use as their personal physician. I recall one story of an obese south side woman that was getting an almost daily ride to the hospital not long ago. Add in the results of weekend “ funnin”, and I’d bet that the underserved account for at least 50% of the ambulance calls in SHI/ Crook County.
Raise pay and benefits and pensions after 10 years.
Yep…….unlike the teachers these people actually provide a life saving service