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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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Ha and the comment by the ACLU has no mention of civil liberty! ACLU stopped being about civil liberty, they now take marching orders from the dem party.
The stupid defending the nazi thing in the 1970’s in Skokie made them reassess their priorities. That was the wrong hill to die on. But instead of going more libertarian aka civil liberties, they went political, and went after the causes most favored by their liberal, rather than libertarian, donors, and that the beginning of the end of the ACLU. They’re practically irrelevant these days. There’s a guy in my office who has an ACLU coffee mug. I’m like “seriously?” I think i’ll start drinking coffee out of my daily wire “leftist tears” mugs around that old dude but he… Read more »
If you have a BMI over 40 you are immunocompromised by medical definition. Does Chicago have enough police under that BMI to man the checkpoints?
So Germany is opening up their economy on April 20th and Chicago will be setting up police checkpoints. You can’t make this stuff up.
This seems to have the potential for violating some rights. Similar to other safety checkpoints, are they going to announce ahead of time exactly when and where the checkpoints will be? Also, what pattern will they be stopping vehicles? Will every third vehicle be checked etc.?
I would strongly suggest that we don’t have rights in the way we think we do.
We simply have the illusion that we have rights.
If these rights can be taken away at any time for any “good” reason, they’re not really rights, but privileges.