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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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An Arab terrorist, commits an act of terrorism by shouting “Allahu Akbar” and then shooting a Jewish man wearing a yamaka and the political puppet police chief says there isn’t enough evidence to charge him with a hate crime. If it were the other way around there would be protests and the fella wearing the yamaka would have been charged with a hate crime. Don’t get me wrong, the whole hate crime designation is a bunch of mental disordered bullshit designed to punish white people more than any other group, is completely ridiculous and it is rarely used when the… Read more »
Nothing new here. Joe and Kamala have welcomed thousands of criminals. Mark my words. When Trumps starts sending them back Dems will call him a racist.
Conveniently missing from the report are the facts that the assailant shouted “ Allah Akbar “ or something very similar and is an illegal that was supposed to be deported.