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"(Pastor Corey) Brooks is a conservative living in a progressive city. Unlike Wright, Jackson, Sharpton, Pritzker, and Johnson, Brooks believes upward mobility is achieved through personal industry, completing an education, and acquiring economic opportunity, not dependency on government largesse. Unlike the race hustling clergy and left-wing politicians, Brooks does not see race as a detriment to socioeconomic mobility...Moreover, in contrast to clergy and progressive lawmakers, Brooks is a firm believer in market capitalism as the foremost economic system to uplift and create individual and generational wealth."
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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Unlike Wright, Jackson, Sharpton, Pritzker, and Johnson, Brooks believes upward mobility is achieved through personal industry – wait isn’t that how JB became so wealthy? Never mind wrong Pritzker.
Hmm, that’s been my MO my whole life. No wonder I’m a tax donkey.
More leaders like this is what the Black community needs