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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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The demand for hate crimes exceeds the supply so there are so, so many hoax hate crimes.
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Jussie? Bubba? Dozens of others easily identifiable by an internet search… And when the hate crimes aren’t fake, they try to tie it to white supremacists (the 100 remaining white supremacists that aren’t actually undercover federal agents)…. And when the hate crimes aren’t fake, and when they aren’t white supremacists, it comes down to unhinged mentally ill crazy people that likely need intensive psychotropic drugs. “Even Hussain’s physical appearance was concerning to prosecutors, who said he wore a mustache similar to [evil german dude] and a red cape with a yellow swastika on it, as his made his way through… Read more »