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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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Hate crimes are prosecuted if it pertains to a certain group but black on black crime which is a specific race is just considered crime and if caught rarely prosecuted.
If it’s not a crime, why report anything? Call your neighbor out for being a hateful jackass, and leave the government out of it.
The slow creep towards totalitarianism continues…. Anyone else feel a little 1935 Germany-ish?
Very creepy. Who decides what’s hate? You already have folks in press labeling folks protesting migrants in Brighton Park as xenophobes for example? Is that a “hate incident”?
The demand for hate crimes far exceeds the supply.
Egggsactly.
Dennis Miller said in one of his Rants (and I’m paraphrasing)… „as soon as you make people have to hide what they say, or say things only in dark corners, you have increased the problem. I want horrible people to say their thoughts out loud. Then I know who and where they are and I can point and laugh at them.” Free speech is the sanitizing sunshine of a society, which comes with the unpleasant consequence of sometimes having to hear „mean words”. **vapors… faints**
I also just reread the article and realized that the alderhuman is Debra Silverstein. COME THE *F* ON! Do you know any history, Deb?!?