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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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I suggest that we ship those that live in food deserts to an Amish community for some re-education. They’ll actually produce nutritious foods, aquire some cultural enrichment and become closer to God.
It wouldn’t be a Chicago deal if it wasn’t a cluster f*ck.
Well done “progressives”, well done.
I didn’t realize, Save-A-Lot sold all it’s stores and is now only in wholesale/distribution biz. So, I don’t know where that leave subsidiary “Yellow Bannana” or why city would enter into contract with them? (https://www.supermarketnews.com/retail-financial/save-lot-sells-last-its-stores)
Potential for a huge grift?
Food deserts exist because the community doesn’t buy food or eat in the same way that the rest of society does. All of the communities’ children get free breakfast AND lunch at school. Mom/Grandma only needs to make dinner on weeknights which can easily be solved with gas station frozen pizzas or convenience store fast food or even fast food. Moreover, most of the community lives in smallish apartments/homes with dated kitchens and a lack of decent cookware to make home cooked meals, so to speak. It’s not easy to cook a full meal in a kitchen with little counter… Read more »
According to an article I read recently about ultra processed food, school (lunches at least) are no better than gas station food. It’s apparently about as far from healthy as it gets. Of note, blacks suffer from much higher age adjusted mortality rates from cardiovascular issues, as well as cancer.
Let them starve, its like AOC said, why do we need farmers when there is food at grocery stores. They voted for democrats who created this, let them starve.
What a complete face plant…on can only imagine city run grocery stores would be an even bigger disaster
It would be like going to the Secretary of State’s office and you think “I can leave the car running, I’ll only be 5 minutes to get a loaf of bread” and it takes 2 hours to get checked out after the line is around the block with one clerk at the front.
I have shopped at Save A Lot and their prices are not really any better than Wal Mart. In addition, the canned and frozen foods have a lot of salt and/or sugar in them. I’m sure my Doctor would yell at me if he saw the labels.
RFK is partially correct that the food is killing us and causing chronic conditions. there’s all kinds of salt,sugar and straight up chemical concoctions in today’s processed foods. That’s only half the problem though because portion sizes are out of control too. It’s easy to eat half a frozen Home Run Inn pizza in one dinner but that pizza is 6 serving at 350 calories each so half a pizza is 1000 calories even before you figure in a drink all the rest of the meals for the day.
One of the main reasons not mentioned in mainstream media about all of the chronic health conditions is most people are suffering from malnutrition. Not because of the lack of food but because most of the food supply is almost devoid of essential nutrients needed to keep healthy. Keeping a good Vitamin D/magnesium/zinc/B12 and B Complex/omega 3’s to mention a few will go a long way to keeping us much healthier. Have you noticed all the RX drug commercials on every station and all hours of the day? The U.S. and New Zealand are the only 2 countries that allow… Read more »
There’s a reason why food deserts exist in certain neighborhoods. Win a prize and guess why! Winners to be notified by my Nigerian friend who will only ask that you pay for shipping and handling.
Competent journalists would have found and interviewed former store managers, or other employees, who could have described reasons why these stores haven’t been able to provide the quality of food desired. As it is, those of us who don’t live in the neighborhoods can only assume.
It was quite interesting that in the You Tube video I saw of the thoroughly trashed Wal Mart on the South Side of Chicago, that the fruit and vegetables were relatively untouched, while everything else was stolen or destroyed. I’ve also seen LINK card users with plenty of junk food and soda in their carts at checkout and pretty much nothing healthy in them.
Kinda like when the St George Floyd crowd went on a looting spree and the work boots store was untouched.