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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 abysmal failure is ALL on the Chicago Teachers Union. Bust this union now. Toss all member vermin to the curb.
The awesome part about the Obama’s quote’s, were that they were made from a yacht in the Mediterranean. You can’t make this stuff up! Did someone write it for them?
It has two levels, bad and worse.
Teachers are nothing but overpaid babysitters. All they do is pass the students through the system and they get out with zero job skills. The teachers themselves could not pass a basic skill test.
If Black children learning to read, write and add at grade level in public schools was actually broadly important to Black parents and their children, we wouldn’t be reading opinion columns such as this.
All you need to know about the oh so phony Obama’s:
https://radaronline.com/p/leaked-photos-obama-rage-tweeting-oppression-scotus-luxury-yacht-greece/
People who embrace the Obama’s are kindred marxist ideologues hungry for power.
The irony about Obama is that the rumor he absolutely aced his LSAT (law school entrance exam), likely in the 98th%, so the Ivy’s were falling all over him to admit him. He probably was likely a qualified candidate regardless of the color of his skin.
The real scandal was that Obama was a foreign exchange student–not a born US citizen and therefore inelligible to serve as president. You won’t find much MSM research on this topic. It’s also impossible to view his school admission records, financial aid records, transcripts, etc.
I get this argument but I never bought it, and I hate Obama as much as anyone. Natural born citizen means you were an American citizen at birth. His mother was American he was born so he was American too. Citizenship passed to him, even though he was likely born in Kenya as his brother and grandmother claim. But ultimately, it doesn’t matter if he was born on US Soil or not. He was eligible to run for president. I remember, John McCain IIRC was born in Panama to a service member and he was considered a natural born citizen… Read more »
“Natural born citizen means you were an American citizen at birth.”
That is false. A natural born citizen is a person who was born of an American citizen father AND was born on US soil. Even a naturalized citizen must be born on US soil AND whose parents are “subject to the jurisdiction of” the US. That means that they resided permanently on US soil…not visitors. Obama is NOT a natural born citizen.
“John S. McCain III: A Brief Navy Biography – NHHC
Family Heritage: John Sidney McCain III was born on 29 August 1936 in Coco Solo, near Colón, in the Panama Canal Zone.”
It is not false. You can wikipedia the meaning yourself, there’s been many opinions on what it means. According to your definition, Ted Cruz can’t be president because he was born in Canada to an American mother, even though he is a US Citizen. There’s some academic scholarly dispute whether natural born citizen means ‘born on US Soil” or not but the general consensus is, that yes, even in Illinois, he’s a natural born citizen…..“in February 2016, the Illinois Board of Elections ruled in Cruz’s favor, stating, “The candidate is a natural born citizen by virtue of being born in… Read more »
John McCain was actually born in the US Canal Zone which was an American territory at the time of his birth.
A Democratic president thought it’d be a good idea to give it away and the Chicoms may now have control over it. We’ll find out if we need to get navy ships into the Pacific in hurry to defend Taiwan.
American territory but natural born? As soon as we start getting into the nuances, it becomes hard to define.