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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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This is what’s going to happen to the Democratic Party if they keep dividing and, at the same time, encouraging confrontation to settle disputes.
This is going to be the viral video of the week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmqHr62uCVI&t=256s
They’re pushing third world values. And they’re getting third world values.
Wall St. Journal video of a fight that broke out on the floor of the South African Parliament.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUZM3KAibd4
You are absolutely correct, there is where we are headed.
Obama has always held poor African Americans in contempt – he identifies as white for lifestyle. Of course, Obama has been very effective at manipulating African Ameticans to gain political power to advance his marxist agenda. What’s amazing is the ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ which prevents African Americans from doing anything different.
BO was the best at it…THE BEST!
Surprised Newsweek acknowledged this. And of course “open border” hurts low-income US citizens the most, whether white, brown or black.
They’re not acknowledging it in good faith. Instead of a fair assessment and honest reporting, they’re injecting race identity politics into it to divide and discredit. Writing the article from the perspective of property owners, hardworking professionals, and business interests would most likely get substantial support, and legacy media backers don’t want that. Instead, you get an op-ed from a contentious diversity counselor amplified towards people that don’t support diversity training. The end goal is to destroy support and momentum by branding it as racist.
These people are clearly defending the interests of their community. I support them.
Rich Miller is is this you posting here again?
Biden is the same old racist he was when he was drinking buddies with Southern Democrat segregationists
Policies of the democrats have been anti black forever. The Ku Klux Klan was a democrat organization. The democrats opposed the Voting Rights Act, see the Al Gore Sr story for more details. The democrats have put millions of black people on the welfare train and refuse to let them get off. The democrats have allowed crime and violence to flourish in black neighborhoods, reference to Foxx, Evans and similar restorative justice democrats in St Louis, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Atlanta etc. SloJoe is doing what democrats do best, destroying everything they touch and blaming conservatives.
Yep, the Democrats importing Illegal Aliens is the modern version of the back of the bus but don’t ever expect them to admit it.
But when it comes election they will still vote for DEMS as they are dependent upon them for racial entitlements and welfare/income redistribution.
They are waving “Build The Wall 2024” signs in the crowd, buddy.
Blacks are no longer needed for use by the Democrats as the Latino types now are. Sorry blacks but your usefulness is over
Instead of making derogatory comments, why not support them and team up with them against dishonest politicians?
Derogatory comments? Don’t you mean “the truth hurts”?
NO DOUBT! Not only that, blacks may want to look up the history of their new neighbors in the country’s they come from.
Sounds like the blacks have xenophobia and anti-migrant racism. It would teach them a lesson or two to accept several thousand non-english speaking migrants into their neighborhoods. Racists get what they deserve – the complete and utter destruction of their neighborhoods and social order. Everyone deserves a progressive utopia where there’s 100 different languages spoken and no one gets along with their neighbors.
And diseases that no doctor has ever seen before.
To anyone reading this, debtsor does everything he can to stir up the pot here. He doesn’t speak for us or represent our values! His only consistencies are division, destruction, perpetuation of self-defeating myths, and doing his best to convince everyone they’re helpless against the Chicago machine.
Why do you do this over and over?
Democrats, Marxists, Illinois politicians are the ones stirring the pot who do not represent America, our Constitution and Bill of Rights! People have a right to their opinion.
Absolutely.
Dave: Debtsor is not the one “stirring up the pot”, whatever you meant by that. It’s crystal clear to most thinking-people, that SO many areas in Chicago have already entered the “destruction” phase, and there is way too much “social disorder”. The pot has been destroyed by decades of Democrat rule and terrible policies that led to loss of jobs & companies from the city, single-parenting relying on government “assistance”, extremely high crime, and last but not least, sanctuary city that has accepted unskilled people from all around the world getting low level jobs, depressing wages, and making it nearly… Read more »
Yes he is. I’ve watched him do it for months. You’re changing the subject and losing focus. Dems don’t ‘rule’ either.
Do you agree with me that his comments are inflammatory? I can’t think of anything more insulting and divisive than labeling an entire group of people racist.
“Racists get what they deserve – the complete and utter destruction of their neighborhoods and social order.”
Fighting back requires cohesion, conviction, confidence and morale. Would you let someone with an attitude like this play on the same team as you or partner in a business endeavor?
Of course my comments are inflammatory. That’s the point. I’m pointing out the irony and hypocrisy through inflammatory and decisive posts. I don’t *really* believe that blacks are anti-migrant racists. They’re just normal people, like the rest of us, who don’t want hundreds of non-English speaking immigrants showing up and taking limited resources away from native born Americans. Black communities have few resources and shoehorning hundreds of migrants into their community is truly unjust. BUT, I at least vote against this nonsense, but the blacks vote in favor of it, and now that it’s affecting them, I enjoy the schadenfreude… Read more »
Dave: These are Comments for gosh sakes. That means they are not actions with results . In case you haven’t noticed, Democrats HAVE RULED many/most(?) major cities for decades , and the results are clearly catastrophic, in EVERY WAY that a civil, law-abiding, prosperous, and well-educated society SHOULD operate. Catastrophic. SO if ppl voice an opinion such as Debtsor, you are going off the deep end, to overly criticize him. His comment that blacks are racist (presumably against whites and/or hispanics, are NOT “inflammatory”, as you claimed. Heck Dave, how many thousands of times in the last 7 years have… Read more »
Dave Hardy – would you address the moral, legal and political consequences of racial identity politics, which is clearly practiced by the politicians in Illinois. It is difficult to preach against divisiveness when the operative principle is that benefits and the nature of public belief is based on race.
That’s a hard question to answer! Everyone here seems to like charts and government statistics, so here we go. There’s an extremely obvious disconnect between hard facts and current political agendas. Spoiler, politicians are taking everybody for a ride and making a huge issue about what all the statistics below reveal to be nowhere near our most pressing social problems. Even more surprising, complaints have fallen off of a cliff since COVID. The last link is easiest to interpret. The obvious conclusion is that time, money, and productivity are wasted. https://www.eeoc.gov/data/charge-statistics-charges-filed-eeoc-fy-1997-through-fy-2021 https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-releases-fiscal-year-2020-enforcement-and-litigation-data https://www.zippia.com/advice/employment-discrimination-statistics/ You’ll never win an argument with a… Read more »
“via mass communication technology”
The WP comments section consisting of likeminded, but stubborn old folks, is hardly ‘mass communication’. WP itself has some greater reach on many issues, but the comments section has nearly zero influence. If you’re looking to change minds, you need to be on Youtube, or twitter, or tik-tok. A random video with an attractive 30 year old women talking politics can get a million views in a week. I doubt more than several dozen people read any of my comments.
Here’s another shockingly low chart. This one I found is for 2019, but I doubt it will make a difference what year it is. We’re talking 18 race victims for Chicago for all of 2019. Covid probably made recent stats even lower. I don’t know if this is verbal abuse combined with physical battery. FBI counts businesses and entities as persons in some stats.
https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2019/tables/table-13-state-cuts/illinois.xls
Here’s your chances of getting struck by lightning. These stats are not much different than being the victim of a physical battery hate crime. FBI stats are a bit tricky.
https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2019/topic-pages/victims
Competitive freeloading. We Don want dem here, dats our free sht.
You get what you vote for.
Most dems didn’t know voting Biden-Harris and reversing Trump’s agenda & actions, would result in total chaos. I didn’t even think it’d be THIS BAD. Even ppl well off, nearly retired or retired withtheir life savings, have been hammered , starting late ‘21 when Bidenconomy began meltdown. Most ppl lost 20% -30% of life svgs, ‘22 was the largest loss of household wealth in history. And this year is no picnic.
Not a peep by the MSM-Dem-Protection racket. PS: Wife & I lost 17%, but got back 2% this yr. 😂🤣
This comment section is full of professional trolls today. Call them what they are. There’s no use explaining anything to them. All they care about is stirring up the pot.
Dave: WHICH Comments are from professional trolls? And which political affiliation do you think they are? Posing as Rs or Ds? Specifically which?
Dave, I am aware of no professional trolls here. Certainly not StvOh, who I know.
I didn’t say StvOh was a troll. I hate the word expert, but I guess I am. I’m a propaganda expert. There’s overwhelming evidence of trolling here. I’m happy to post articles, book excerpts, and scientific papers explaining how I’ve come to this conclusion. It’s easy to see them after you’ve read a training manual. You need to publish some articles about this stuff and expose these techniques. “Symbol warfare” is an antiquated term from early 20th century military literature. Google returns no results. LOL The goal of symbol warfare is to discredit opposition symbols and bolster your own. A… Read more »
Dave Hardy – you told us you are an expert, which is nice to know, but you give no input on the consequences of racial identity politics. Pointing out the negative externalities it creates is not trolling.
Dave, you’re completely in the wrong place if you think you’re going to change public opinion in the comments of a hyper-local political website. Tik-tok videos, or tweets, get far more interaction than likes than comments here. This place is just a bunch of old people bitching about Fat Man Bad. The choir is preaching to itself here. Go make yourself a tik-tok page, get a pretty girl to repeat what you write here, and you’ll have several hundred thousand legit views in a week. This place here is an obscure corner of the internet.
Debtsor: Touchee! But WP isn’t so obscure when WSJ quotes some of its studies, and when public folks, notable Republicans, in Chicago, are quoted, interviewed, etc.
And yes there are many of us who are seasoned, well-informed folks, & we’re fed up with big govt, gross malfeasance for 15+ years. 🤣😂
WP itself is influential, there’s no doubt about that. We are all pleased to see the change they’re effectuated.
But comments section are not influential.
Debtsor: Perfect Point….Crazy Dave the expert on ….whatever…should at least realize how irrelevant our comments are.
I like your comments, they’re full of truth, exasperation & some anger.
And I resemble that!
Dave: Ur right about one thing — I’ll explain it more fully: Red MAGA hat is a symbol of WANTING policies to make our country great again, and obviously BY Republicans, thus the Red, And we did & will vote that way whoever runs against Dems. I helped Herman Cain in summer of ‘12 in his Maryland primary campaign to unseat Obama, the Cain Train was awesome. Unfortunately the NYT smoked him out, ruined his chance by exposing a trivial $40k Pymt Non Disclosure Agmt for a woman who claimed he groped her. Those kinds of claims are often baseless… Read more »
HeyDave, if I could sign up to be paid $1,000 per Comment, I’d happily give Comments such as: -Biden’s been a magnificent Resident of our White House, working tirelessly to make America great… or -Dem Mayors & City Councils are SO successfully improving the quality of life in Balto, Philly, NYC, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee, E. St Louis, Chi-town, New Orleans, Memphis and 20 other cities out west. Would be fun & hopefully lucrative. Dream job. Where can I apply Dave? Appears you know something re Pro Trolling! PS: You didn’t respond to my 2 comments to you: Which Comment(s) according… Read more »
“HeyDave, if I could sign up to be paid $1,000 per Comment…” You need to learn the game first. Debtsor is stirring up the pot. He’s perpetually negative and always shoots down any glimmer of hope or drive here, knowing full well that we need hope, cohesion, and drive to solve this mess. “Dems around the country in positions of power..” So are the people that oppose them!!! I guarantee you that people that oppose Dems, when you compare them individually, are more educated, more financially independent, in higher number, etc. We’ve got them beat by almost every metric. Unfortunately,… Read more »
I don’t know why you’re attacking me. I’m just an old man screaming “fat man bad” on some obscure corner of the internet. If you want to change hearts and minds, go make some tik-tok videos, or youtube videos, and make the content interesting enough to go viral.
Dave: Good luck with the improvements you’ll make!