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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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SPLC and highly publicly-subsidized colleges have elevated legal sophistry to a highly profitable art, winning millions in Hate Speech litigation and fostering a Kafkaesque framework for determination of what is Hate Speech. I am suggesting that others emulate their successful strategies.
–If only to neutralize some of their power: rulings in favor of free speech will disarm their self-determined (Free Speech when they say it, Hate Speech when You say it) attacks on Free Speech Rights.
I once had a rock collection that had mica.
Practical reaction to Hate Speech (inciting violence) such as this is civil litigation; SPLC uses this to win millions for SPLC admin personal benefit. Illinois among other States have Parental Responsibility Laws which bring civil liability to parents of babies on college campuses. Litigate against parents of coddled free-ride babies attending University, as well as the babies themselves who will have collectible assets now or in the future. IRS outlines disclusion conditions which may strip tax-exempt status from non-profit organizations like Universities. Hate Speech tolerance/encouragement may arguably be just such an exclusion factor. LITIGATE against these hateful, violence-incenting students/professors/University Admins.… Read more »
Susan, usually enjoy your posts, they’re always well put and thought out, but please, knock off the “Hate Speech” crap. In this country, we have Freedom of Speech. Thankfully and I cherish it.
My point is: force the Hate Speech profiteers into the position of defending Free Speech, in court. With their own money at stake.
Susan, there is something basic you seem not to understand. You can’t litigate against hate speech because it is protected by the First Amendment, as it should be. Only if the speech rises to incitement of eminent violence is it not protected.
Eminent or Imminent violence?
A climate scientist is a professor at the Art Institute? Intellectually and morally bankrupt.
“Dr. Mika Tosca, a climate scientist…”
LOL – like Jesse Kelly says, why do all the various leftwing groups all share the same values? It’s because they are all fingers on the fist of communism: climate nutjobs, anti-israel hatred, BLM, progressives, it’s all the same thing. The ultimate goal is communism, to destroy. It’s all one in the same.
Why the apology? Tosca meant what was said.
Fire her.
Him
Her? Him? Which?