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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 esteemed professor says there is no First Amendment protection for lying. That’s dead wrong. See https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/567/709/
Sounds like Pritzger’s family members of the communist National Lawyers Guild at work. I often encountered these disgusting cockroaches defending local abortuaries. God will not be mocked!
Hmm, what exactly is deceptive about butchering babies? How bout that they’re not actually human or ……..
Good point, I would have to think the abortion mills engage in deceptive practices in some manner.