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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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No, “Professors” like this one are what lead to racism.
Good God, what is the matter with these supposedly educated peoples brains?
The modern academic:
“Let me know what answer you want, and I’ll interpret the data for you”
So MLK was a racist? Who knew.
This is a laughably faked-date, agenda-driven, steaming heap of junk science fraud horse-shit.