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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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Professor Cepeda was probably against Teachers being armed to prevent School Shootings by criminals, but now wants to be armed to “protect children” from Federal Law Enforcement.
You can’t Make this stuff up….
Professor should be fired.
Antifa is not an organization. Organizations are organized. There is no central hierarchy.
Oh, really? Who sets up meeting times, locations etc. ? Who foots the bill for banners, pre-printed signs and the vans to deliver them? Who pays for the gas masks we saw the cretin handing out in LA when ICE was being attacked there? One of the tenets of communism is to not be organized as one and identified as such. Just a bunch of free lancers, right? Free lancers that don’t have the money or brains to organize anything on their own. BTW, they have an office in Portland and had ( have?) one in St. Louis as well.