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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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Peaceful protests that do not infringe on the rights of others should be allowed and respected. Otherwise put them on planes and send them to the streets of Gaza.
The US is suppling weapons that are killing woman and children in Gaza.
All lives count equally. Proud to be an American against war.
Israeli strikes ‘wiping out whole families’ after attack on warehouse sheltering displaced Palestinians in az-Zawayda in central Gaza.
The civil defence spokesman in Gaza, Mahmoud Basal, said on Saturday that 15 people killed in the overnight attack were members of the al-Ejlah family, with three women among the dead. The total death toll from the attack was 16.
Israeli attack on Gaza shelter kills 15 members of one Palestinian family | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
Yep and the world will be better off when Hamas is gone.
I wouldn’t plan on a flight either in sure all the roads will be blocked.