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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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Stop Complying people and take of the damned masks.
Of course the mask mandate will remain. How else would the virtuous be able to easily broadcast their moral superiority?
Now Arwady is jumping on the “well, flu season…so masks” bandwagon. Too many people in IL believe they are a panacea. Frustrating…https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/million-dollar-question-chicago-doctor-weighs-in-on-future-of-masks/2681752/
It’s ironic that 43 other states refused to forced mask are bad but IL is good for masks. People here even on the right still believe masks work. Many people haven’t left the state in a year and a half and don’t realize that most of the country has moved on from covid-19. The Rittenhouse trial didn’t have a mask anywhere to be seen and that’s just right over the border.
“…hundreds more won’t live to see the holidays.” Is the article referring to COVID or shooting deaths in Chicago?
More words of wisdom from King Pritzers African born doctor. With Illinois being the home of nine allopathic and osteopathic medical schools wouldn’t you think there would be an Illinois educated individual in the King’s court of buddies? When I wrote the above I wanted to determine the amount of medical schools and found the following “most medical schools throughout Illinois accept a large percentage of out-of-state students. ” Can we infer from that Illinois’ undergraduate schools are not teaching to excell and merly act as highly paid baby sitters for many of the school districts? Seems like day by day… Read more »
There’s only a handful of IL located schools that even feed into the medical school system: U of I, U of C, NW, Loyola, and to some degree, UIC and DePaul, and Millikin. The rest of IL’s schools don’t have the academic rigor to produce doctors.
The holidays in what year/decade or century?
And we will continue to move the goal post, until the people wake up.