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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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Maybe if the democratic party wasn’t antisemitic and pro Muslim, this would change. If these acts of violence were against any other race or religion, the Democrats would be furious and screaming. Instead Dems do nothing and let it happen.
But, as Silverstein pointed out, Jewish people weren’t really considered and Brandon paid them little attention as opposed to when other minority sectors of the population are victims of hate crimes, eventhough it seems Semites bear the majority of said hate. Jussie certainly got a lot more press for his hoax, nationwide, than a serious attempt to acknowledge the problem.