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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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Agree that students should keep their politics to themselves when applying for a job – however I do not agree with the targeting of students who are standing up for Palestine, but students who stand up for BLM, LGBTQ or Israel are not being targeted. I have not read that Students who stand for DEI, ESG, LGBTQ, or Israel are being targeted by employers. We do have a 1st amendment freedom of speech in this Country and we are going down a very bad path if we start picking and choosing who you can or cannot stand up for or… Read more »
Your enemies have no principles and neither should you, unless you want to lose badly. A democrat leaning employer would fire you in an instant if they knew you supported Trump. You should rejoice when your enemies are held to their own standard.
The media likes to portray Jinan Chehade as the poor Lebanese American girl targeted for her views. A google search of her will bring up sympathetic articles from all the typical left wing media outlets. You do a deeper dive you’ll find out that she helped lead a smear campaign against a pro Israel professor. Sometimes karma is a bitch.
My point is that we have a 1st amendment freedom of speech in this Country. It does not matter whether you like the person or are taking the side of one group over another – We have not seen others being discriminated against for supporting BLM, LGBTQ, Ukraine, Abortion, DEI, ESG, White Supremacy, etc…. Why is that? If these students are being targeted and you are OK with it – remember that when it might affect you or someone you agree with. The Constitution is what it is and if we lose the 1st amendment (which we already are) because… Read more »
Too bad they didn’t name the first kid. Googling the other too you’ll see that they are not the type you want as a co-worker.
Actions have consequences. Might as well learn it while you’re young. If you don’t like it, start your own company. Otherwise, keep your politics to yourself. Nobody wants to hear your voice.