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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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To paraphrase Douglas Murray, “If Donald Trump really is the grave existential threat to democracy you claim he is, then the best you can do to go against him is Joe Biden and Kamala Harris? Really?” Great question, for which there are sooo many answers.
Advocacy, even with true statements, does not tell the whole truth. And often a partial truth is intended to mislead. If you want enforceable whole truth, get a smart lawyer and put the advocate under oath. “Free speech” was often used in encouraging patriots to tar-&-feather British loyalists.
“Take the firearms first, and then you can go to court. We have to act, we can’t wait and play games. Take the guns first, go through due process second.” – Donald Trump
Where, pray tell, did you find this quote, Frank?
What was the context?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5448121/Feinstein-looks-excited-gun-control-meeting-Trump.html
The quote is from a meeting that took place in the White House on February 28, 2018. This meeting was focused on addressing gun violence and considering potential gun control measures in the aftermath of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which occurred earlier that month. During the meeting, President Donald Trump expressed openness to various gun control proposals, including raising the age limit for purchasing certain firearms and implementing stronger background checks. The quote itself reflects Trump’s suggestion that law enforcement should take immediate action to seize firearms from individuals who may pose… Read more »
You can run a search for “dianne feinstein trump gun”. The meeting was in 2018. Wirepoints doesn’t like direct links, but the link is up for now.
Thanks, Frank.
Context: Red Flag laws.
Always helps to know context.
Bad movie. File it next to the Highland Park parade.
Maybe the people will finally CARE that all the radical dems do is bully and incite violence cause that is the only way they can win other than cheat! The ONLY threat to YOUR FREEDOM YOUR LIVELIHOODS are radical Dems that want to tax you into oblivion and eventually take everything you have ……..if you are a non-believer just look at the shape of Ill and most of the blue states! Just look at this article…should be titled radical dems want to start trouble……..this is all just disgusting that there can’t be 2 views and still get along……never was this… Read more »
Inciting hatred and division has been their core strategy. Let’s hope they are sincere about abandoning it.
From your mouth to GOD”S ears.
Pardon my cynicism, but I feel it’s yet another Dem sucker punch. They have proven to be more than a bit duplicitous since 2008. Russian dossiers, damaging lap top information being ignored before going awol and the big lie of Biden’s mental health status, aided and abetted by MSM tell us all that we need to know about the Democratic Party in America. Fool me once, shame on you . Fool me twice…