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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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Now I know why I get my medical care across the State line. Interestingly enough, many of the doctors in my area have done the same thing.
Surgeon General Warning: Gun play and gangbanging can be hazardous to your health.
Unhealthy lifestyles now require equitable medical care. Sorry grandma, we know you’ve lived a healthy life, and taken good care of yourself, but you’re gonna go to the back of the line to make room for the obese and sedentary to get ‘equitable’ health care.
Bus patients to Bannockburn and Glencoe. Lots of healthcare there, low wait times. Also, force medical professionals to work for free (oh wait that is already a law, EMTALA). Also, make it a condition that all medical professionals are forbidden to ask about insurance status or ability to pay, but rather must render services to any client who shows up for service. (then, get everyone free Pace vouchers to Glencoe and Bannockburn). Also, make it a condition of medical licensure that medical professionals establish strict quotas in order to see only a strictly limited number of Caucasian clientele. This condition… Read more »
When you shoot yourselves in the foot, literally and figuratively, come see Uncle Sugar ( as the older members of the community used to refer to the government ), he ‘ll fix you up cost free while those with legitimate, non-self inflicted health concerns and insurance wait.