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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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Stores that reopened on the Mag Mile are fools.
Miracle Boyd who lied about the encounter with the police at the Columbus Stauer and bragged about looting Kay’s jewelers is quoted as gospel by the ignorant leftist losers at WBEZ. These are not activists but terrorists who need to be prosecuted but the gutless fbi is too interested in making false claims about trump supporters. Blm must be stopped for what it has done to America. It’s a domestic terrorist organization.
And they wonder why small and large stores are leaving Chicago!
Young people are taught that activism is a good thing, and maybe it was at one time. Now “activism” is totally divorced from the notion of problem solving (let’s mitigate police violence) and is only about stirring up anger and resentment to divide the country for political and economic advantage. Remember how Obama was promoted as an “activist” from the Southside of Chicago? The brilliant, articulate, Hawaiian, carpet-bagging wunderkinder used the gritty city for false bonafides to bait voters. There are multiple levels of tragedy on display today, but whichever way the verdict for Chauvin goes, it is given that… Read more »
Can we stop calling them “activists”
It’s curious when people censor posters here. I’m calling the ADL
‘Ya think Soros’ funded SJTerror orgs will be stupid enough to pre-plant stacks of bricks again?
Um, duh.
They just can’t wait for an excuse to go on another binge of destruction.
In other words they’ll burn it down regardless of the verdict.
Absolutely true no matter the verdict it will not be good enough.