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"My mother was one of those brilliantly unreasonable people. As the baby of five, I spent much of my early years clinging for dear life on my mother’s skirts as she confronted slum landlords, abusive husbands, and gang bangers in the Uptown area of Chicago. Time and again, I would squeeze her hand with that look of 'what do we do now?'"
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 life very well lived.
RIP Champ.
Fare well, brave lady!
“Extraordinary” indeed. In fact, that’s understatement.
30 down votes? I am willing to bet that it was one clown who either orchestrated it with his clown friends or one POS who felt compelled to create 30 log ins. Either way…total loser.
Yes, that’s extraordinary, too. All those downvotes on a story about a woman we never heard about who apparently was a living saint. I have to assume that the lefties can’t stand seeing anything that puts Turley in a good light.