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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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We can all be intersectionally “race fluid”, so we can identify as whatever we want, to get the most of whatever they are giving away. This was supposed to be a joke, but Good god, as I type this, I think I got dumber.
lets all just identify as black we all get some money
Great vote buying scheme with the taxpayers money
Illinois was NEVER a slave state. So explain why this is even considered?
Best argument against this nonsense I’ve heard yet. Thanks for pointing out the obvious.
“More whites were brought as slaves to North Africa than blacks brought as slaves to the United States or to the 13 colonies from which it was formed. White slaves were still being bought and sold in the Ottoman Empire, decades after blacks were freed in the United States.” – Thomas Sowell
Any quote from the great Thomas Sowell gets an automatic upvote.
It would be interesting to know how many of these “slaves” were really treated like family, and might otherwise not have any other form of sustenance. In the pre-welfare past, I have been told people who did not work, “did not eat”, though some support from the church and other organizations must have played a part.
The welfare train for certain ethnicities never ends. Gimme, gimme, gimme are some of the first words learned along with the handling out of the unlimited use, no expiration date race card. My parents are immigrants who arrived in the 1920’s and never owned anybody. My family history is of people coming to America for a better life, getting a job, working hard and moving through the system to get better jobs. Welfare was called “being on the dole” and every family member would have been embarrassed to death if they applied or accepted welfare. Hard work, coal miners, factory… Read more »
How about this. GET A JOB make money. Stop trying to get something for doing nothing. Being on government programs will not increase our wealth. It will stifle it.
Maybe just give us all(black, white or pink w purple polka-dots) the same deal as CTU/Brandon…2 gov paychecks for $188,000 yr for doing what? and a teir 1 gaurenteeted $multi million $ pension for 4 yrs of supposed teaching….paying water bill optional
Here’s my input, go to hell
20+ years ago the company for which I worked (founded in 1939), received a letter from the state of Illinois Department of Insurance requiring a written account of the company’s slave ownership, dates, names, locations, etc. I guess Illinois departments didn’t communicate OR don’t have a working understanding of history to ask a company founded in the 20th century about their slave holding in the 19th century. I drafted and submitted a letter explaining that a company that didn’t exist prior to 1865 couldn’t own slaves. The commission should seriously consider disbanding and getting real jobs. It’s more woke nonsense:… Read more »
WOKE NONSENSE ALERT: Illinois Democrats Want 2023 Taxpayers To Pay Reparations For Pre-1865 Slavery –