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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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Ignored is the fact that at least half a dozen countries have declined to accept the Palestinians. They have been thrown out of Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt in the past.
Wow. The outrageous lies spewing form the deranged left is silly and absurd. Clearly they are desperate for media attention.
Stupid rhetoric. It’s not ‘cleansing’ but relocation. If he’s got issues with forced relocation, then say it. But calling it ethnic cleansing, which Trump did not suggest, is clearly hyperbole.
Ah, but it inflames the base. Words have power. “Ethnic cleansing” definitely excites far more than “forced relocation,” though the two have absolutely nothing to do with one another.
Take for example “gender affirming care” which sounds positive but means mutilation of confused children (with or without permission of their well meaning but ignorant parents).
If adults choose that for themselves on their own nickel, no problem, bug kids?!?!
Who controls the language controls the narrative. Honest language is on life support.