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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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The sign says “end capitalism before it ends us.” Those who graduate from this school and end up with good careers in the private sector will laugh at how gullible they were. Those who end up in the public sector won’t care much about capitalism one way or the other, because they’ll have guaranteed high salaries and benefits. Many of the remaining graduates may continue to hate capitalism the rest of their lives. Those people may want to relocate from our country sooner rather than later, because the alternative is a mentally unhealthy, constantly stressful life.
Time to have a balance in right/left professors. For every left professor they’re should be 1 right professor. College students only get the left propaganda in college. Viewpoints should be balanced. Quit the brainwashing and just educate.
They need guidance from professionals. Dialogue needs to start. Dividing everything into “workers” and “owners” is ridiculous. I really liked this debate between both sides. It highlights common ground and issues we could work on.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cwSXDr7XkNc
It is Illinois State. It has an 89 percent acceptance rate. It is ranked #87 of 1500 hundred plus colleges as a party school. Ironically one of the few programs of study which make sense is accounting- dangerously bound up with capitalism for this activist crowd. Yes there are some competent students there – but this Marxist crowd gives off vibes their beliefs flow from their concerns or interest in competing in a challenging marketplace.
Applying the moniker ‘nazi’ to anyone to the right of Karl Marx is nothing new. English punks referred to Margaret Thatcher using the term. Reagan, Bush 41, and ‘Dubya’ were all labelled with the term. The term was never appropriate, given its definition. It upsets the lefties when it is accurately pointed out that the tenets of ‘National Socialism’ and ‘Democratic Socialism’ have more in common than with any conservative politician in America. The ‘Antifa’ knuckleheads even adopted the colors and tactics of the Brownshirts, bringing ‘Kristallnacht’ to Blue Cities all across America. They can’t see it, of course. They’ve… Read more »
Alas, making my point for me, a propagandized leftist shot Charlie Kirk at a Turning Point event at Utah Valley University. I pray for his recovery.
If leftists would stop shooting people, gun violence would virtually disappear.
God answers all prayers. Charlie Kirk is safe in the arms of the Lord. I pray for his family and his two young children. Despite the obvious feelings of vengeance, I pray for restraint.
However…you Libs own this one. Contrition is your only salvation.
These indoctrinated dimwits through around the epithet “ Nazi “ as frequently as they mis- use” literally “ and say “ ur, um “ and other non-words in every conversation. If they ever met a real Himmler, Heydrich or Goeth they’d drop dead of fright.