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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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Since Raoul is, once again, veering out of his lane, perhaps he should consider a disclaimer before the local newscasts and on on the front page of the Trib/ Sun Times advising us to put our hip waders on because it’s going to get deep. Raoul was quiet as a churchmouse re the Henyard affair, but he’s Johnny on the spot when it comes to influencing elections in WI, telling other states what they need to do re trans people competing in college sports, etc. Like Dubin and Ducksworth, he pops up every so often, roils the waters and then… Read more »
They censor not because they are scared of the truth, they censor you because they don’t like you, and they don’t want to hear anything you have to say. And let’s be honest here, if I were a republican in charge, I would be censoring Democrats right and left, just for the fun of it. I’d have anyone instabanned for using the word Charlottesvillle or ‘fine people’. Ban forever. I’d also ban users for using Trump and ‘convicted felon’ in the same sentence. If I had even more power, I’d close their bank accounts and shut off their cell phones… Read more »
If you are serious, you are as bad as them on this. The assault by the left on free speech is deadly serious, and the answer is not to replace their censorship with yours. And, by the way, you’d be flagrantly violating established First Amendment law if you did any of that.
Nicely said.
It is obvious where they are going with this. Censorship of any kind that criticizes the Government or their narratives. They should require a warning label on themselves. “Politicians can be hazardous to your health”.
When you say “they” I hope you’re including red states as well. At the very minimum 40% of red states are going along with the surgeon general’s recommendation.