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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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Protesting? Protesting against what? The economy and our military are stronger than ever, Russia’s ready to surrender, crime and illegal immigration are down, Israel is safe, and our freeloading so called allies have been taken to task. It’s us against the world….and we’re winning! Stupid libs.
They’re protesting you, deplorable.
Don’t agree with any of them…but at least it is actually protesting and not burning cars or buildings.
I see a bunch of bored sheep that have seen every episode of “ Murder She Wrote “ and “ Matlock “ a hundred times.
Suggest Tesla sue publisher for defamatory comment “stiff arm salute”.
Intentional defamation needs vigorous response in the same spirit which made millions for SPLC.
Of course it’s all white women…idiots.
AWFLs.
These idiot AWFLs need to get home to feed their cats.
Hundreds? Mmmm…no.
No matter how much you hate the media, it’s never enough.
#defundthemedia
There were actually thousands. I drove through. They were on both sides for almost a mile.
The financially-struggling Sun-Times thought it worthwhile to send a photographer (and perhaps a journalist) to Lisle to cover this event. At least they could have interviewed a few of the demonstrators to find out why they chose to participate. btw, it isn’t clear from the photos that “hundreds” of people were there.
WLS coverage was a little better.
Protesting a Tesla dealership is really, really stupid form of protest. Those who protest Tesla dealerships – even if they are paid agitators – really should ask themselves how they got to the point in life, where they stand in front of a Tesla dealership as a form of protest against cutting government waste thousands of miles away. It’s super low IQ behavior.
There were actually thousands, not hundreds. They lived both sides of the street for almost a mile on Odgen Ave. There’s no way there were only hundreds. It was crazy!
When their free speech does not get them what they want, they resort to intimidation.
I didn’t witness any intimidation at all. It was a very peaceful demonstration. As a matter of fact, I haven’t heard of any violence at any of the demonstrations. And there weren’t hundreds of people. I saw it. There were easily thousands.
They’re protesting a car dealership, for goodness sakes, the most idiotic form of protest there is.
But it makes sense when you realize that these people treat politics as their religion, and the protest at a Tesla dealership is a religious retreat, and the gathering is religious revival.
Man with yellow sign No Nazi in Chief whose it for Musk or Pritzker