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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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When we vaccinate all the elderly, disabled, immune compromised, and cancer and heart patients we can vaccinate the restaurant workers. A job in a restaurant as a bartender or server was never meant to be a career. Nor was working at McDonald’s ever meant to be a job where you can raise a family. What has happened to this country and basic common sense. Tell Sam Toia, the political hack to stick his nose out of public health.
The problem is that it’s become yet another special interest sport, with everyone jockeying to get the advantage. It wouldn’t happen if it wasn’t already happening with other groups. If we just used objective criteria, like age only– and perhaps people directly working with Covid patients, we wouldn’t see this public posturing. Start with 80+ year olds. Then go to 70+. And so on down the line. It’s so simple that government would never do it. But because we have politicians like Pritzker, we have everyone trying to elbow their way in front of the line. With all the time… Read more »
I have missed my favorite pizza place a lot. I’ve got to agree that restaurant workers need get vaccinated, the sooner the better. Until then, I think restaurants and their ridiculous mask/no mask rules are potential Covid 19 infection distribution sites. Until they are vaccinated and I can enter without a mask, I won’t go into a restaurant or even risk pick up of food.