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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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Maher is no friend of the right. He still hates you, deplorable, far more than he hates his own party.
Mr Maher’s question has been asked for several decades – The likes of deep thinkers like Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams etc also commented in their day. Of course since they were not Leftists, they were ‘canceled’ by the establishment media. Most telling to me is how Mr Loury expressed a very truthful comment to try and find an immediate solution to the crime crisis – he was actually trying to discuss how to mitigate the crime NOW. The West Coat Leftist Professor, who no doubt lives in a very safe middle-class neighborhood, was not interested in any practical, immediate… Read more »
There’s an entire site of interesting, alternative Black thinkers here. They aren’t celebrities, though, and you probably haven’t even heard of most of them because most of the press focuses only on leftist radicals: https://freeblackthought.com
We live with the understanding that the vast majority of black Americans are just like the vast majority of every other racial/ethnic group. It’s nice to have it reinforced with a website like this.
Thanks, Mark.
Bill Maher, blacks don’t want to hear from your white@$$ how to live. If he listened to Urban Radio, he would know that.
Because don`t you know its all WHITIES FAULT
IMO cognitive dissonance!!
I’ve been thinking all along. Where is the investment from prominent black athletes and local celebrities like Oprah/Jordon/Thomas/Sosa/sports stars/etc who signed multi million dollar deals some of which are billionaires. They build large homes for themselves that’s about it. How many factories/businesses outside of their own did they build in inner city communities? Yes some donated money but no direct investment. Does anyone know where Oprah built anything in Chicago other than Harpo studios? This is the same for all athletes all over the country. What about the black music/movies stars helping out other less fortunate people. Handing out a… Read more »
Supposedly Magic Johnson invested near Roosevelt/?? k street perhaps 20 years ago. Not sure what happened after that
They already know the answer. It’s systemic racism and guns. No need to talk about the actual perpetrators, or the fact that most of the guns used are obtained illegally.
Acknowledging that fact would deprive them of their victim status which they use to bludgeon society into giving them that special protected class.
Obviously racist since it’s the truth
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It’s an “inconvenient truth” they prefer to just ignore…
Nothing to see here Bill. Move along.