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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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Illinois laws and programs, legislators legislating for the criminal!
Bob Morgans up soon with his contribution.
The Dr. quoted in this article is a Primary Care, Mental Health & Substance Abuse specialist. She believes that degenerate drug addicts are going to show up to ‘safe drug consumption sites’ to get the purity of their drugs tested first, to make sure they’re injecting the proper dosage. For real, only the Cook County Health System could hire someone who obviously ideological, that they could ignore clinical data from all around the world, and believe this would be a good idea. The cultural rot is everywhere. Us conservatives have been too busy celebrating Trump’s presidency and our Supreme Court… Read more »
“She is the program director for Public Health/General Preventive Medicine Residency”
She’s training residents. Stroger hospital used to be a great inner city hospital where medical students would do their residencies because they saw it all, and did it all, really fast, with lots of hands on experience from some of the best doctors around.
Now, they’re being trained in ‘equity’ which is helping the cartels addict more, and kill more, people with fentynal.
This is the sad, sorry state of our health system today.
Whatever government does with the money it will be a waste. Always has been, always will be. The taxpayer was put on earth to “Shut up and pay your taxes”.
New feel good vote buying programs that will become listed as “necessities” when t he drug settlement money runs out thereby causing higher taxes or even more pension underfunding as the Illinois cycle continues on.