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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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Go view the video-tape from Saturday’s meeting at Chicago’s teamster hall, rallying cries in Persian for violence towards all Americans. Seems 2024 convention is veering towards a restaging of 1968 convention, tear-gas and mob violence and all. Not a good look for Biden.
Yup and the cpd will do shit
Here Tribune, I’ve fixed your headline for you: “Activists to Violently Riot, Burn and Loot ‘with or without permits’ when DNC arrives in Chicago this summer.”. You’re welcome.
Isn’t the woke progressive activist folks the democratic base at this point? How will these folks be up on stage at convention and at same time claim they are being denied access to protest would seem the big theatrics question for convention organizers trying to energize their base?
That’s my point. Who is going to show up and protest and what will they be protesting? A middle east war that’s nearly over? Ukraine? Free Healthcare for All? Occupy Wall St? Systemic oppression? I understand that with commies the revolution must always be constantly ongoing. Mao’s Cultural Revolution was 20 years into his rule. But I don’t know what they’re even protesting at this point. During 1968 the hippies were protesting the war they were being sent off to die in. Maybe they should just round up these protesting freaks and conscript them for Ukraine or Iran or Yemen.