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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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Once there is defined textbook rules of linguistic interpretation of alternative language, that is valid argument. Absent that, it just prevents students from participation on legal system.
State Statutes can be written in ambiguous language?
Please give example of vernacular Statutory language which can be codified as law.
Doesn’t matter what your background is, where you came from, etc. This country speaks English. Everyone should learn to speak the language of this country, it helps with assimilating into the society and becoming an American. To allow improper language to be acceptable at schools diminishes the value of the education even more than it already is, there are just somethings you should learn to do and one of those is speak and write English properly.
They don’t want you to be an American. That means nothing. They just want you to vote Democrat.
All “hyphenated Americans” should return to the the regions of their ancestral origins.
Just another race hustler builing his “brand”.
When you get out in the business world you had better talk the language of that world or go nowhere in your job.
Like one commenter here always says (sorry I can’t remember which one, Riverbender maybe?) NIU had such promise being so close to major city and could have attracted many of IL and WI’s best 2nd tier candidates, like Virginia Tech to UV, but instead, NIU squandered it all, allowed the campus to look like a blighted third world county, and accepted students with sub-20 ACT scores. And now we get afro-national professors like this, desperately trying to push ebonics into mainstream academia. Imagine how ridic it would, you know, be, if like, yeah, she instead said that Valley Girl was,… Read more »
It was Willowglen, not Riverbender