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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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Evanston has long excelled at a sanctimonious virtue signaling that made its upper income bracket citizens feel better about themselves as they rode the express train, or drove their comfortable SUV’s, to posh offices in the loop. Let them eat lawn signs.
CRT peaked my interest several years ago. Since then, I’ve read numerous books on it’s origins and it’s roots in post-modernism. I encourage everyone with school age children to do a deep dive. We have to understand what we are fighting so we know how to fight it. The lines are intentionally blurred. Many people are conflating black history with CRT. We are not opposed to black history – we are opposed to Theory and it’s devastating consequences for liberalism, equality, and free speech. The latest chatter is acceptance of pedophilia with “consent” and transracialism. It’s coming. Maybe once this… Read more »
202106029-Deemar-v.-D65-Complaint.pdf (slfliberty.org)
Teaching innocent children that they are racists because of the color of their skin only makes racism more prevalent in our weird society. It is an unusual stretch of logic that anti racist teaching promotes racism of another sort.
Evanston go figure! no budget, broke, high taxes, liberal and crime!
Evanston you get what you vote for- Have fun!
For many, it is no longer a matter of if, but when they’ll leave this disaster of a state.
Those who don’t want “anti-racism” taught in public schools are engaged in “a war on reality itself”?
These people are completely unhinged.