-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
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.
SIGN UP HERE FOR OUR FREE WIREPOINTS DAILY NEWSLETTER
If a potential student is a US citizen, little chance of going to med school at UIC. Patients deserve the option of having a US born doctor from a similar background. UIC discriminates against US citizen students.
Jewish and Christian patients limited to narrow network choices in medical provision are susceptible to Jihad by Muslim doctors. What protections exist? What legal recourse for predictable deliberate malpractice due to inherent bias against Jews and Christians?
Allegations. Investigations. Committees. All to prove what we all saw . Stop burning time and letting these people continue to draw paychecks, hand them pink slips now.