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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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For a big laugh, listen to US Senator from Missouri Eric Schmitt on X read out quotes made by batshit crazy CEO of NPR Katherine Maher;
especially her fantasy of visiting road side stands selling baklava -raodside stand selling baklava? with Kamala :
https://x.com/Eric_Schmitt/status/1945894657054986363
I clicked on the article and a big donate ad pops up and won’t let me read the article. They have to stop freeloading.
I guess they will need to sell some advertising to make up the deficit! Have to start acting like grown ups!
I recently heard that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting had virtually no Republicans on its very large board of directors. All D’s, all the time. Yet Missouri voted 60% for Trump, and Illinois 44%. And he won the popular vote throughout the country. No need to worry about “public” media stations until they truly align with the public, and rebalance their boards and programming to reflect these percentages.
Sheesh – I used to listen to NPR in the car all the time. Their programming was interesting and not so one sided in the discussions and topics. Some of the programming was just too much and you just changed the station and went back later to find something better. Somewhere in the past few years, they changed and it has become a 24/7 propaganda machine. I haven’t listened for awhile, does NPR still have Wait Wait don’t tell me, Prairie Home Companion? I also used to listen to FreshAir…Sadly, I know Car Talk isn’t on any longer. Not much… Read more »
I am thrilled that my tax dollars are no longer subsidizing this Democrat AKA Communist propaganda. Good riddance NPR and PBS. All through college I listened to the local PBS station in the morning for Bob Edwards and on Saturdays for Car Talk. Remember Red Barber on Friday mornings? NPR’s news was, even then, a bit left leaning but evenhanded enough to tolerate it. Although, Cokie Roberts was insufferably infuriating. When I moved to Chicago the clock radio was set to it and that’s what i woke up to for a few years but…..I stopped listening sometime in the late… Read more »
Finally no more tax dollars for PBS/NPR socialist slop.
If PBS needs cash for communist crapola, they can just sell more Nina Totenbags.