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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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I am not a religious person but I am familiar enough with it. I can’t help but think, when I observe in the picture above, several Hasidim march with the Palestine crowd, that these misguided individuals, once again, have ignored all of the Old Testament’s warnings regarding the adoption of the local gentiles’ customs and practices. There’s an entire book in the Bible about it, Jeremiah, the weeping prophet, lamenting that the people of Judah must abandon the practices of the locals. Yet here we are today, 2,500 years later, and we still have several ignorant Hasidim marching lockstep with… Read more »
Boo hoo, our terrorists started a war and Israel responded.
Fool around and find out!
This nation is not a melting pot but instead a ‘boiling pot’, As each racial/ethnic group tries to separate themselves for their own political agenda and power base. And politicians kow tow to this making it ever worse.
The “protestors” aren’t trying to highlight anything. They are just thugs using intimidation to accomplish their goals.
Gaza can either join the world community and purge itself of terrorists, or, the world will do it for them.
I wonder if the guy even knows the Wampanoags didn’t live in Palestine.
Spot on Sparty. His other sign has an image of that peacenik Nasrallah who’s now enjoying 72 virgins.
Protesters who block traffic should be arrested and charged. Their rights do not supersede the rights of everyone else.
Arrest them!