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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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Let’s just stick to American history. Arab-American history, as well as a number of other subdivisions, is part of American history.
I am all for it. Let’s start with the wars they have been starting for almost 1500 years. Let’s make sure we include their slave trade, their goals to take over the world, their push to make the infidels convert to Islam or be killed, their emigration to every continent on this planet and having 8-9 kids. At the local level, let’s make sure we educate students on how they come to this country pregnant and have kids in our hospitals at the expense of our Medicaid programs. Let’s also make sure we don’t leave out how they will open… Read more »
“ Some people did something..” says a MN politician of Somalian decent re 9/11.
Schools need to focus on the basics first-reading, writing, math, science- not special interest groups. Il students failing in reading and math. Fix that first.
As long as we’re so hot to get into the history of slavery ( even in non/ never were slave states ) can we mention the Arabs contribution by selling Africans(and other people ) into slavery for thousands of years? Let’s extoll all their virtues, not just the things we find commendable.