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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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Simple system: White men go to the back of the line regardless of profession or health condition. Period.
So the blm looters, burners and protesters get priority, as do the Mexicans who celebrated Mexican independence for two weeks from south Michigan to the Gold Coast. They infected themselves while the stupid white people stayed at home. This has to change one way or another.
My 75 year old parents live in Texas. They will be getting shot #1 tomorrow. My mom’s BFF, who lives in the northern burbs, is terrified to do anything. Won’t go shopping, thinks in person school is a massacre, etc. She thinks Pritzker has been the bees knees in all of this. She’s now told she won’t get a shot until May or June. Because equity in distribution. I figured this stark contrast would open her eyes, but alas – Pritzker still walks on water and is doing all he can to save us all in her view… She votes.… Read more »
Northwestern has prioritized the south and west side ghetto types. Shameful.
Gotta get those votes somehow. BTW – Isn’t this like Deja vu for the African American community…. Tuskegee anyone??