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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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Over complicating vaccine distribution is stupid.
The central planners are delaying saving lives in the name of equity over equality.
Equity is equal outcomes.
Equality is equal opportunity.
These vaccinations aren’t free, the U.S. taxpayers are footing the bill. All you need do is watch the show up to get it mopes who didn’t realize appointments were arranged on line or by phone to realize some of us are more attentive than others. The fact that suburban residents got there first is a commentary on the locals. Did we not already overpay for their education?
Chicago has become a s— hole. Plain and simple.
Surprising that Pritzker hasn’t yet blamed Trump and Rauner for this mess.
The city headed by racist Lori and her sycophant Arwady do not want to give vaccines to white people over the age of 65, the disabled, immune compromised, and cancer and heart patients. They are only interested in giving the vaccine to the permanent victim class of any age in order to pander to the south and west side communities to get votes.
Those two individuals signal handily made this a race issue and they know it, shame on you two bigots.
Pointing fingers is what they do best, along with screaming “racism” about everything.
The biggest racist is Lightfoot.